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Wet and windy again so visited the nursery for some supplies and cheered myself up with a couple of pot plants.

Planted some tomatoes in pots.

All change on the greenhouse

Clematis flowering well

Flower Power

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Planted tomatoes on the plot outside and in the greenhouse

A June record broken already and a strange tomato

Fruit seeing

Runners have been removed from new strawberry plants

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Planted out squash and courgettes

That didn't last long

First roses flowering

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Planted more lettuce and sowed more radish and spring onions in the salad bed.

Potted and trained morning glory,

Moved kiwi Issai to cold frame courtyard and also alliums and agapanthus for temporary shelter from winds.

Provided supports for tomatoes in garden greenhouse.

Salad days

Panted cauliflower, cabbage and sprout plants

Lots of watering

Cut back one lot of sweet rocket

Cut first lot of sweet Williams.

Flaming June

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Sowed biennial flower and more brassica seeds.

Trimmed back ivy as no birds were nesting there.

Tree following - medlar

Take a look around out plot

Nearly time for elderflower cordial

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Planted sweet corn, runner and climbing French beans

Bad hair day - sweetcorn and beans

No hiding place - roots

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First harvest from raised salad bed,

The salad bar is open

Morning glory is flowering and roses growing well

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Netted one lot of strawberries

Harvested first cabbage of the season

Veggie gap is over

Painted summer house
Planted new alpines
Planted some containers up with pelargoniums and violas,
Dahlias and banana taken out of greenhouse

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Will it ever go away - wind

To pick or not too pick that is the question? - apricot

Planted last lot of annuals and some aquilegia on plot

Picked first strawberries.

Not so good June is it? - slug damage

Where there's muck there could be a problem - contaminated manure and composts

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Bought osteospernums for tub in summer house,

New rhubarb Poulton's Pride arrived

Rhubarb

Bought more carrot seeds to try for a third sowing to try to defeat the slugs

Cut back grapevine

Mowing the grapevine

Pricked out some brassicas

Morning Glory flowering in summer house and greenhouse

First flower on new rose Chris

Planted two mini cucumbers in cold frame

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Visited plot to harvest and did a bit of weeding.

Picked first calabrese head

More firsts- harvests

Sowed more foxgloves abd silene,

Sprayed climbing beans with Grazers,

Orchid flowered at last
Harvested out apricots- all two of them

Laws of gravity and an apricot

Two halves of the same fruit

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Sowed more radishes and planted

more lettuce in the salad bar

Trimmed rhododendron

Things taking off in the greenhouse

Allium Christophii

Double and single tomato flowers

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Peas are now flowering

Sprayed lupin for mildew

Campanula infested with blackfly

Sowed more carrots

Plantedd sunflowers

Picked first re and black currants.

Who needs a gardener?

Another go with carrots

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Planted lavenders raised from cuttings

Planted lettuces in space where carrots failed

Carrot Spotting

First new rose - Meg - flower

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Evening visit to water plot in preparation for a hot day tomorrow

You wait for ages and then they all come at once.

Bought lavender - Sweetberry Ruffles - and rhodohypoxis - Fairy Tale