It's raining, it's pouring...

Boy, has it rained over the past week!

There has been so much flooding around the country – we have been lucky both here & at the Hill that we’ve not been waterlogged as so many others have been. It’s been ANOTHER cool & wet day today – drizzle & rain all day, & just so gloomy! You’d never think that it is July!

I did manage to get to the Hill last night though for a picking of LETTUCE (mixed), RADISH (white icicle) & a few CARROT (early nantes). I sowed a short row of RADISH (saxa3) & a very short row of CARROT (Adelaide), what with running out of seed half way down the row & all.

I also stopped long enough to admire the Prize Pumpkin, & to note that the celery has rather surprisingly not keeled over & even looks to have perked up a bit.

I also popped 4 sunflower seedlings in at the front of the plot, & transplanted 10 red onion seedlings. I tried to put them level with the ground to match up with how they were in the tray – resisting the impulse to drop them in a hole like leeks – but they look a bit forlorn, so I’m not sure that they’ll come to anything.

The lettuce is still totally out of control – the plants are just getting bigger & bigger! I still have one red frilly one left to pick from the first row up by the Prize Pumpkin, & there are another four rows not started yet. That recipe for lettuce soup is looking more attractive by the day!

I think that the cool, wet weather has suited the lettuce & stopped the plants from bolting. Unlike the spinach which seems to whiz skywards at the drop of a hat – but that doesn’t stop me picking the flower stems & eating those.

I actually have a couple of flowers on the COURGETTE here at home, despite the plant looking worse now than it did when I planted it out, but the cucumber seedling has bitten the dust again – it’s just been far too wet, I think, so no cucumber for me this year – a challenge for 2008, perhaps?