Pottering in the garden.

❄️ After all Spring and Summer spent erecting shade cloth, fixing when we have high winds, moving as the sun moves to a more northerly aspect, it is now time to take the shadecloth down. Piles of shadecloth exist now, like drifts of snow.

🌺 I got the big choppers out and removed that last hollyhock root. All the ripened seed pods are in a pile to scatter in areas I wouldn't mind them growing.

🫘 I changed my mind about the bed I will plant the broad beans in, so I'll need to weed it first. It is one more suited to double-row planting.

🌳 I've been thinking about what to plant in a "guild" around the fruit trees. There is a sort-of semi-guild already from the sorts of plants that self-sow there but I've been wondering about being more intentional. It turns out that I have a range of things already that I can grow from cuttings or roots and plant there. (I was watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZ7lHWKTzU Its for Wales, I think, so the plants don't all work here, but the ideas do.)

Luckily I also found some more garden pots under some shadecloth, for the cuttings.

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I have found this too. My efforts to dry a lot of purslane have been vindicated 😄

This is from an interesting article about using garden greens including marshmallows and other mallows, hollyhocks and lots of others.

https://foragerchef.com/common-mallow-plants-cheeseweed

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I know I have posted this pic before but it is getting tantalisingly close to time to pick the pomegranates and quinces. I check them every few days, but watched kettles never boil 😂

I may make very small amounts of quince molasses and pomegranate molasses for occasional use (high in sugar which I am not supposed to have) or gifts. Altho I no longer have a juicer ... so maybe not this year. It depends, maybe I can borrow a juicer for a day.

Making quince molasses is fun. The juice will start off green-yellow in colour and gradually turn a bright red as it cooks.

Makrut limes are also on ripeness-watch, for Indian pickles.

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I was out in the garden to say hello to the bees earlier than they were expecting this morning. Not 1 bee on the 4 tulsi plants!

There are mushrooms growing after the last rains. No wellingtons are planned, they don't look right 🤣

Caterpillars are on the finger lime. I know from past experience that they can decimate it. I will have to deal with them even tho I prefer not to.

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