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Mowing & Weeding

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- Few blackberries - 12 cucumbers - 6 tomatoes - 3 cherry tomatoes - 9 peppers - 3 accidental chillies - 13 jalapeños - 10 indestructible chillies - Mowed lawn in 2 charges - Trimmed rose border - Weeded house side rows of veggie patch - Courgettes taking over - Poles on batch 1 tomatoes bending - Strawberries green with lots of runners

Massive Cucumber

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- 11 cucumbers - 1 of which is the biggest I've ever seen - 5 tomatoes - 12 cherry tomatoes - 4 peppers - 4 jalapeños - 2 accidental chillies - 6 indestructible chillies - 1 courgette - Some new grass coming through - Balm growing well - Thyme growing well - Borovinki (both) have new growth - Trimmed dying garden petunia  

Sowing Grass Seeds

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- 13 cucumbers - First Black капия pepper - 2 peppers - 4 cherry tomatoes - First (batch 2) tomato - 1 (batch 1) tomato - 14 jalapeños - 10 indestructible chillies - Noisy Owls - Cloud of House-Martins - Sowed grass seeds in central runway, dug up for sprinklers - Sprayed (batch 2) tomatoes with garlic/water solution - Changed sequence on watering system: 11pm, 2am & 5am

Dried Produce

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- 3 pears - Handful of blackberries - Handful of rocket (1 plant) - 12 cucumbers - 3 courgettes (enormous) - 3 (batch 1) tomatoes - 10 cherry tomatoes - 5 peppers (all varieties) - 3 accidental chillies - Stripped & crushed wild oregano picked from Bansko - Mixed more garlic water solution for batch 2 tomatoes - De-twigged dried rosehips from last year  - De-shelled last year's walnuts

Cucumber & Tomato Maintenance

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 - New birds: Eurasion Green Woodpecker & Nuthatch - 11 cucumbers - 4 courgettes - 8 cherry tomatoes - 4 (batch 1) tomatoes - 2 indestructible chillies - Disentangled & tied up cucumbers - Tied up batch 1 & batch 2 tomatoes - Колтуча-ed all tomatoes