Seeds, swifts & nurdles

[birds chirping] Hello.

We're well into summer now, and what a summer it has been so far.

Talk about heat, warmth, high temperatures, plants struggling under the midday sun.

But we've been coping as best we can.

One good thing that's come from it for me is that we're getting some pointers, early pointers, on which plants are going to survive best in the future as global warming really kicks in.

This apparently has been the hottest July in this country since records began.

That's something to think about.

But it's not all desperate.

It's not all bad news.

There's some good news in.

There's something come from the plants.

Take, for example, the bedding, uh, plants in this garden.

Some have stood the test.

Some have needed much, much more water than we thought.

And, uh, some of them will be on the list in future for survival in this garden.

But as plants fail to conform, to go with the flow, uh, can't stand the heat, et cetera, then we'll gradually weed those out.

It's the way it has to be for me.

Vegetable garden as well has been productive this year, very productive.

But unfortunately, some of the plants have had a shorter season.

This moisture business, we're well organized in terms of organic matter.

Um, we keep a horse, and we save the droppings from the horse, the horse manure, weather it for about a year outside, and then it makes marvelous bulky material, uh, for the garden, digging into the garden.

And it's used as a mulch around raspberries, strawberries, all the, all the fruits and the top fruits, the pears, the apples, and plums, and of course, in the vegetable garden.

I'm thinking in terms now of the plants that are giving a little more, or they have something more to give.

On my list would be the runner beans and the broad beans.

The runner beans have cocked a snook at this heat, and they just keep on going and producing lovely, um, delicate, young, long beans.