runnerbean

[runnerbean]

Hi Cajary, just back from my summer hols, Croatia and Slovenia were lovely, really hot weather, the garden produce they grow, is brilliant, there is walnut trees and fig trees, just growing along the streets, I have loads of walnuts, they dry their figs for to use in the winter, and I never knew their olive oil is better than the Italians produce. The fruit is in abundance, every house has a medium sized garden, where they grow all their own veg and salad stuff. I have eaten really healthily all the time I have been there, what have you been up to lately, I had a bumper crop of tomatoes this year, I've had to make pasta sauce with some of them and freeze, and I was really chuffed with the blueberries I had of my bush. I went to the garden centre today to enquire about feeding the blueberries and they recommended organic seaweed with iron which you feed to the plant in Spring, they are acid loving plants, you learn something every day. Talk to you soon.

[cajary]

Hi, runnerbean. Glad you had a great time. I've never been to that part of the Med. we usually go further East. (Greece, Turkey etc.) Where we were last year, anybody who grew veg. of any amount, called themselves farmers.
The Blueberries have been fantastic but I use a pelleted fertiliser, in the Spring, that is for use on acid-loving plants. It's all different colours so you know when it's gone. The container tomatoes were rubbish Two plants had Tob. Mosaic Virus. The other two suffered from Blight (lousy weather, I think), the g-children were well hacked off. My apple tree is going really well, hopefully we'll get some blossom next year to cheer up my g-daughter, she planted it!!. The Brugs (Daturas) are going great guns, at last, and we've actually had the weather to be able to sit out on the patio with a few beers and enjoy the scent. Hope this weather lasts a bit longer
All the best