I've spent time every day in the garden this week. The warmer weather has promoted growth and the two tomato plants have grown a lot in a week. There are plenty of flowers out now too. Today I'll finished the planting with a punnet of foxgloves - surely the sweetest flower name of all. My aim was to get all the planting, weeding and mulching done before the hot weather, and we've done that, so from now on, it's pruning, dead-heading, fertilising, watering and a little bit of harvesting. Speaking of which, Hanno harvested the curly kale on Wednesday for his annual pork and kale feast.
Our mini Cavendish banana is growing well and I think we might get our first bunch of bananas off it at the end of summer. We've grown regular Cavendish in the past. We had about six groups of bananas here when we bought the house 26 years ago but they all died off in the droughts we've had along the way. This banana is in the garden, not on the boundary fence as our other bananas were, so it gets regular water. Apparently, this mini banana will grow regular sized bananas in bunches of about 30kg but they don't all ripen at the same time.
I'm going to the hairdresser for a hair cut today then back home for lunch with gardening and sewing this afternoon. I hope you're doing well and remaining as close to home as you can. Take care. xx
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