2025 - What I did today

Not done a lot today except have a look around at all the fruit trees. The pears on the tree that lost a branch, a williams bon... are quite big now and likely ripe for picking even though shouldn't be ready till September. The branch that fell had 50 small, about 50 to 80g, pears. I was going to bin the lot but I left it lying about for a couple of days and noticed wasps going for a couple so I collected the rest. Though small they are perfectly ripe now and delicious to eat. I think lots of fruit has ripened early this year with the hot weather. We have just too much ripening now. Even the Victoria plums seem to have ripened over the last 4 days. They are not half as tasty as the Czar which finished a week ago but are quite pleasant. Katy apples the same. The tree is loaded with small ripe/ripening apples. Last year it was raided by all the local pests and we ended up with just a very few that managed to ripen.

Don't think I've heard the phrase 'Titied up' before.

Not done a lot today except have a look around at all the fruit trees.  The pears on the tree that lost a branch, a williams bon... are quite big now and likely ripe for picking even though shouldn't be ready till September. The branch that fell had 50 small, about 50 to 80g, pears. I was going to bin the lot but I left it lying about for a couple of days and noticed wasps going for a couple so I collected the rest. Though small they are perfectly ripe now and delicious to eat. I think lots of fruit has ripened early this year with the hot weather. We have just too much ripening now. Even the Victoria plums seem to have ripened over the last 4 days. They are not half as tasty as the Czar which finished a week ago but are quite pleasant. Katy apples the same. The tree is loaded with small ripe/ripening apples. Last year it was raided by all the local pests and we ended up with just a very few that managed to ripen.

Don't think I've heard the phrase 'Titied up' before.

I think it should be incorporated in the Oxford dictionary!    it could mean tidying and tightening in one operation.  I blame small keyboards and lack of reading over.

How about "Titivating"?

Once again I've been pulling up montbretia and other weeds/brambles - it has to be done so that I can reach the apple trees to pick some fruit. My cunning plan is to get rid of as much montbretia as I can, knowing that there will still be corms left in the soil. Then I'll throw lots of flower seeds on the bare-ish soil in the hope that they will grow and the montbretia effect will be less overwhelming next year - and I can have another bash at pulling it up .
As a bonus, I'll get rid of lots of old seeds with an easy conscience.

Watered my poor tunnel. Hope things recover after a couple of hot days of neglect. Fed chillies. Collected a few seeds. Will do lots more harvesting & seed collecting tomorrow if this expected heavy rains and thunderstorms don’t do to much damage over night.

Dead headed, weeded, harvested, watered. The usual for this time of year.

Finished cutting back all the wind burnt and snapped stems / branches from the cottage garden. Pulled up a few finished plants and a few weeds. Collected some seed heads on long stems put in paper bags to dry out.

More Montbretia removal, in between shower - when I retreated to the GH and admired my MFB seedlings.

Too hot to do much apart from watering the GH. Instead I turned my hand to repairing a couple of items in my usual amateur way!! I don't think there's much that can't be repaired with a paper clip, peg, safety pin or stickytape.

I've been busy today converting a huge pile of wood that I had accumulated from various skips into a bench fo my metal shed.

Mainly 4 X 2's used to make the framework for a 7 foot long, 3 foot high and 2 foot  6 inch wide bench with a framework 9 inch fom the bottom fo storage.

Stupidly I got sunburn on my sunburn on my shoulders, but hopefully not bad enough to cause me too much trouble.

I have lots of bits of scaffold boards I have scrounged so these will be cut and used as the bench top. The bottom shelf will be old floorboards.

Knackered!