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Clipping Drip Pipes

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- 11 Mangold leaves - 19 Cucumbers - 6 (batch 1) Tomatoes - 2 (batch 2) Cherry Tomatoes - 7 Courgettes - 3 Yellow сиврия Peppers - 3 Three Edged Peppers - 3 Peppers - 7 Jalapenos - 10 Indestructible Chillies - Handful of Carrots - 2 Beetroot - Strung up Indestructible Chillies to dry - Roses & tomatoes responding well to treatment - Rocket returning (bolting) - Traditional tomatoes in garlic area shooting up - Pulled out ''Palmer's Amoranth' - Tightened, straightened & clipped in place all drip pipes - Took blackberries & pears

Goodbye, Peonies

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- 10 cucumbers - 11 (batch 1) tomatoes - 2 Yellow сиврия peppers - 1 Red edged pepper - 3 Jalapenos - 13 Indestructible chillies - New bird: Eurasian Blackcap - Dismantled supports & cut down all 7 peony clusters - Trimmed garden & wildside borders - Weeded full veggie patch - Emptied out reserve tomatoes - Dug over spinach rows - Extended barn end border wall - Nettles returning

Strawberry Work

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- 2 Indestructible chillies (over 4 days) - 7 Batch 1 tomatoes (over 4 days) - 18 Cucumbers (over 4 days) - Weeded & trowelled Alpine Step - Constructed netting frame using metal poles & wire Planting: - Alpine Strawberries (from seed, 0.25 packet, 1 row, Strawberry Steps)

Onions & Herb Garden

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- 2 tomatoes - Last of the spring onions (11) - Straightened & relaid drip pipes - Dug over top half of herb garden - Herb Garden:   - Georgian thriving   - Mint dead   - New growth on some thyme   - 2 Balm surviving   - Liberated wild oregano from Bansko too dried out to plant - Strawberry Steps:   - Strawberries healthy   - All Alpine Strawberries gone   - 1 borovinki dead, other same as when planted. - Straightened, relaid & covered drip pipes

Spraying Roses & Tomatoes

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-  3 tomatoes - 17 cucumbers - 4 Indestructible chillies - Removed all tomatoes with 'туна абсолюта' - Cut off dead leaves - Hamfistedly repaired dropping cucumber wigwam (barn end) - Tied up & колтуча-ed Batch 2 tomatoes - Weeded all house-side rows - Sprayed roses with baking soda solution - Sprayed tomatoes with garlic water solution