Dear All,
It has been a good growing week, hot and a few showers, so plenty of
gardening prior to members of our U3A “Just Vegetating” coming for lunch next
Friday. Yesterdays gardening was accompanied by our local tame Muntjac who
seems fairly fearless and comes right up to you if you are still.
I took delivery of a “TomTato” and an “Egg & Chips” this week on
special offer – they cannot have been selling too well. The former is a tomato
grated onto a potato root and the later an aubergine on a potato.
Help?
Rockery
We pulled up the early over wintered Broad beans this week – they
have had a phenomenal yield, I thought the frost would knobble them, but we had
very little cold weather so they kept growing. Strawberries have been getting
underway and most fruit crops look promising.
I did a Garden Club at Kempston beyond Bedford on Wednesday – they
said “good job you were not here last night as we were underwater”.
Our Thursday walk started at Kirtling, south of Newmarket and took
in Upend, Saxon Street and Woodditton. It started gloomy but finished in bright
sunshine.
Near Woodditton
On Friday evening we had another tour of the RSPB reserve in Over
Fen with the warden Hannah Bernie. We could hear Bitterns booming all evening
and saw one flying in the distance. The most prominent birds were Marsh
Harriers and at least one was in evidence all evening. They are about half way
through the project of restoring the pits after gravel extraction, and seem to
be doing a good job.
RSPB Gathering
Marsh Harrier
Ben flew off to Fiji on Friday, a 36 hour journey via Australia. We
trust he has arrived safely and will stay healthy as the girl he is meeting has
had Zica virus.
Love
Mike & Kate
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