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Sweet berries, courgettes, ~ harvest-time is  here. ~ 15th August 2015

16/8/2015

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  The overnight rain had left everywhere feeling and smelling wonderfully fresh. 
 I arrived in the early hours and the first thing I noticed was a huge courgette bordering on a marrow on one of the front plants. The huge leaves on the courgette plants were discoloured as if a rusty sort of blight had struck them. From my experience of growing these vegetables over the years, I knew this was a natural sign of age, and nothing to worry about.
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 The runner beans were hanging in great profusion on the bean wigwams and with the amount of flowers that are still visible, I am sure I will have a bumper crop this year.
  Then wonderful Autumn fruiting raspberries were clearly visible and looking very large and succulent, with Blackberries ripe and deliciously ready for picking and eating. 
  In spite of the reasonable quantity of rain we had overnight, my first job of the day was watering and I filled a couple of watering cans with rainwater from my water butts, and watered the pots and my cold frame. 
 I then bagged a few onions from my store in the shed to take home to Margaret and I picked about ten Courgettes. There were about three that were almost marrows and I will pass these on to our friend Sonia, who owns Number Ten restaurant, as promised.
  Then I began picking the fruit, the blackberries are very large and I half-filled a punnet straight away, there will be a bumper crop this year as the bushes are full of the hard green berries that just need a good dose of prolonged sunshine to ripen them up.
  My Raspberry canes are heavy with delicious ripe fruit, large berries that look and taste delicious. I very quickly filled a whole punnet with these beauties and I had to leave a lot on the canes to pick tomorrow. The leaves on the raspberry canes were soaking wet with the fresh rainwater that we had overnight, and I was getting quite wet as I picked the fruit. Then suddenly we had another light shower, I carried on working in spite of this rain to finish picking.

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    John~~Battling with the elements, pests and diseases in my struggle to keep the garden growing. A constant  daily struggle that will be recorded here.

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    Gardening is such a delightful pastime. I spend time on my allotment almost every day of my life, and the sensation of pure satisfaction never ceases to amaze me. I get so much out of this pleasure, I think the benefits are so huge that the government should legislate and make it more available to everyone. I will list just some of the obvious reasons here. ~~
    1) Fresh fruit and vegetables and other produce. 
    2) Fresh air and an intense feeling of getting close to Nature. 
    3) Healthy exercise without the necessity of machines that are found inside a gym. 
    4) The satisfaction obtained by growing plants and watching and caring for them through to maturity. 
    5) A regular occupation that you can make into a routine, somewhere to go to at a certain time every day. 
    6) The companionship of like-minded people, with whom you can get ideas and swap tips on your mutual interests.


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