What’s going on in your garden (2026)?

[karadekoolaid]

I divided Andy Anthurium into FIVE !!!!

Wonderful!!

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

karadekoolaid please send loads of good thoughts towards Andy and his kids...

 

[karadekoolaid]

@karadekoolaid please send loads of good thoughts towards Andy and his kids...

Cheers, Andy - here's to you and the kids:

 

[badjak]

My cucumbers are making their first real leaves.
Maybe a week or so and then I can plant them out
No sign of any lettuce, 1 tub now has bok choy seeded in it.
If that does well, then the other tub may get some as well. Spreading them out a bit

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I harvested yet more cucumbers a light green courgette. I've left the tomatoes for tomorrow when I'm feeling braver... hubby is complaining about the volume of tomatoes around the house!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

So, I've picked the ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes (2 varieties) and a small quantity of yellow beans.

I've also found a jet black tomato plant that I did not plant. I've no idea where it came from, but it can stay.

I need to wait until they ripen.

And the second crop of raspberries is just starting.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Beautiful!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I need to make some changes to the cage that they veg are grown in. It's too dark in there this summer, so my plants are very lanky.

I have very heavy shading material up. But I think it needs to be less heavy, which we have. So our plans are to replace all of the shading with bird netting, for the enclosure, and then add strips of shading cloth of various weights across the roof area, and down to the wood and wire fencing on the north sides, but leave the south sides much more open, to get the light in.

It's a jungle in there!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I forgot the potatoes!

I ate the blueberries.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I should probably point out that the tomatoes got to the top of their supports, and the weight of the actual fruit, then caused them to collapse, onto the squash and new zealand yams, and now they have reached the ground and are growing vertically again! There are loads of unripe tomatoes on them , and no easy way of raising them without breaking things, so I am leaving them be.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Garden still looks like a bomb site, but I've now got 3 columns filled with concrete which should dry out by Monday or Tuesday. Then we can start putting all the earth back into the trench.

 

[Barriehie]

Concrete doesn't "dry", it cures. Water is part of a chemical reaction that makes it set. It also heats up while it's curing.

See numbers 27 and 28: Hoover Dam.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Concrete doesn't "dry", it cures. Water is part of a chemical reaction that makes it set. It also heats up while it's curing.

See numbers 27 and 28: Hoover Dam.

we even have a road sign telling us that nothing is happening on the road repair because they are waiting for the concrete to cure! This is on the major highway into canberra!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Concrete doesn't "dry", it cures.

Conclusion: never ask a musician to describe a construction process.