In the garden

4 - 7 August 2020

The garden is very dry now, but we are still collecting courgettes, and there are watermelons, and the perennial chard is proving excellent, so we always have some greens for salad or for steaming.

 The chicory went straight to flower, but it is making a fabulous show

 The sunflowers are flourishing too

 We picked our first corn cobs, and found out that if you plant the variety 'popcorn' it will not boil soft even after 40 minutes.  We hadn't known this.  We have a few corn on the cob plants which are delicious, but the majority are these popcorns, which after a little research we found have to be dried for a month before they can be popped.  Something new to learn all the time!

 Full moon, early one morning, setting behind the house

 Another early morning - we've been seeing three adolescent fox cubs playing around the pond and in the garden over recent days.  One morning one of them put its paws up on a bench Dave was sitting on, mending the hose pipe, and took a good look at him.  On this occasion, I saw one out of the bedroom window - having a go at a bag of potting compost - ripping it open, determined to have a pee in it.

 The magpies weren't too happy about this either, and one came down to chatter crossly at baby fox, who put up with it for a while and then chased it away.

 The compost - torn open and pee'd on.

Lots of excitement when we spotted an actual growing hazelnut.   Our first - wow!