Week 51

Haven't done much this week. It's been raining a lot again. After I got back from my holiday it seemed it had been quite dry and things were drying out. But it was just a tease and now the rain is back again.

Last week the grass looked like it could do with a mow again to keep it under control. But it was too wet. Now it definitely needs a mow but is still too wet.

Had some friends come over on Friday night. We had a wander around the vege garden and they pointed out I also have rhubarb growing there, and a gooseberry bush. There are also a lot of weeds growing, but I figure as long as they're not too big or getting in the way of the veges, I'm not going to bother with them much. We also discovered I do still have a couple of lettuces left after all, that were just hiding under the mulch.

So this week's total in the garden is:

Potatoes: Heaps
Strawberry: Heaps of plants, a few berries growing, a few berries eaten by something
Tomatoes: 5
Lettuce: 2
Broccoli: 6
Cucumber: 1 (1 got killed)
Zucchini: 2
Celery: 6
Rhubarb: Heaps

There has also been something eating the leaves of the broccoli and cucumber plants. Not rabbits, must be some kind of bug.

This week I opened the second of the jars of apple jelly I made back in April. We'd finally finished eating the first jar. There were a few spots of mould on top, but once I carefully scraped it off, it was very nice underneath. Yummy.

-M