Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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jacdaw Aug 2021 3:21pm, 28 Aug 2021 3,331 posts	0 jacdaw I've just about finished my poly tunnel build. It was like the biggest meccano set in the world. Assisted by:
Flatlander Aug 2021 3:26pm, 28 Aug 2021 2,191 posts	0 Flatlander Did your assistant help you by picking up and holding the next piece in its beak until you were ready to use it?
jacdaw Aug 2021 3:29pm, 28 Aug 2021 3,332 posts	0 jacdaw No, it was mostly a supervisory role. Rolling his sleeves up and getting his beak dirty is a bit beneath him.
Mandymoo Aug 2021 3:58pm, 28 Aug 2021 12,429 posts	0 Mandymoo 😂😂😂 looks great
Hanneke Aug 2021 5:10pm, 28 Aug 2021 78,855 posts	0 Hanneke Jacdaw that looks fab! And I love the goose
Fragile Do Not Bend Aug 2021 2:55pm, 30 Aug 2021 8,681 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I’m destined not to have a good tomato harvest this year. Firstly blight does for about a third of my plants, now I think a mouse is stealing green toms from the greenhouse. Yesterday I saw a couple of nibbled ones in the corner where they couldn’t really have fallen off and rolled to - I put those in the compost. Today there is another four in the same spot. Grrr…
MDrewett Aug 2021 5:33pm, 30 Aug 2021 215 posts	0 MDrewett Blight has hit our outdoor toms at the allotment too so far the ones at home are doing ok, just need them to hurry up and ripen before they succumb...
Hanneke Aug 2021 5:52pm, 30 Aug 2021 78,921 posts	0 Hanneke No blight here but my plants simply haven't grown and ate producing very little tomatoes. Normally at this time I would start preserving them for cooking the rest of the year AND eat them twice a day... I have barely had a tomato yet
Rosehip Aug 2021 5:57pm, 30 Aug 2021 22,230 posts	0 Rosehip I think I caught the blighted tom plants quick enough as the remainder look ok. Mine are outside, but I have had quite a few ripe ones - just about a month behind where they’d usually be here so hoping for a warm September. First sweetcorn cobs picked yesterday - straight from plant to pan it’s so sweet No brassicas, the ones the slugs left got well and truly caterpillared whilst I was away The chillis don’t seem to want to ripen, but there are lots of them, we can always eat them green.
jacdaw Aug 2021 5:57pm, 30 Aug 2021 3,337 posts	0 jacdaw I've had 6 ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse this year. No blight, though.