Furbulous Greetings Supurr Furiends
Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!
Happy Wednesday, epic floofers, and let's begin with the weather report. It's remained cooler in the low 20s C, the sun has been out to shine, though the clouds have been more prevalent, and we've had a few nice rain interludes, still not enough but better than nothing. The wind has been gusting and has been relatively cool in the last couple of days too. The garden is slowly greening up again, although the flowers are in short supply.
So today, rather than flowers, we thought we'd share the BBHQ vegetable garden, and below are some of the chillis we've grown, don't they look spicy? MOL
The P.A. planted the chillis on into one of the raised beds in the veggie garden last week, and below is how the garden is looking now.
So here's a full picture of the organic vegetable garden at BBHQ, which features raised beds and pots loaded with onions, heirloom tomatoes, chilli peppers, sweet peppers, beetroot, peas, broadbeans, herbs (too many to list), leafy greens, broccoli and cabbage, plus more.
The gravel pathway was completed this year (finally! MOL) and the two arched trellises are used for the climbing beans, with four varieties of runner beans; let's hope they're not too stringy!
The mini greenhouse structure/covered raised bed standing against the brick wall is filled with salad greens, and the one further down on the right is still empty. There are still two open raised beds to plant up, and for one we've got some rhubarb coming from Nanny's garden, plus we may plant some blueberries and other stuff.
Right at the very end, there are seven different species of fruit trees, still in their infancy, so they won't start producing anything for another year or so. There's also an apple tree just as mew walk through the door on the left (out of shot) which was producing fabulously, but sadly, grubs attacked a lot of the apples, so we've cut those off and are hoping the remaining ones will be ok. We might even put small organza bags over them to protect them from further grub assault.
And the P.A. has bought some netting, with rods to place over the cabbage and other greens as the caterpillars decided to snack, mew might remember Smooch last week and his bazooka?
Pest control is difficult when chemicals are not used, and the P.A. won't have anything at BBHQ that might harm the bees, butterflies, birds or other wildlife. So we continue to try our best to grow as much as we can, but if things get eaten along the way, so it goes.
Also, the P.A. uses sacrificial plants like nasturtiums, especially in the bean pots, as black fly isn't pleasant and if we plant a few sacrificial plants, then the bugs tend to gravitate to those instead of the veg. We use marigolds too as a decoy, and they help no end.
And there mew have it, home grown at BBHQ, and still a work in progress!
Anyhoo, let's look at this week's top headlines.
First up in the news this week
Caturday Night Snacks with Parsley, Fudge, Melvyn and Smooch
Yep, when there's snacks and treats about, it's like a stampede in the kitchen! MOL
Guess who's the biggest hoover out of these four? Go on tell us who mew think it is...
Next up in the news
Pandora's Quality Control Checks
Mew may remember a couple of weeks ago that Parsley was in charge of quality control. Now it seems that Pandora wants to assist too! MOL
Hopefully, paws crossed, and a lot of wishful hoping, Cat Dad is planning on finishing the deck over the August Bank Holiday, so here's hoping the weather is nice, otherwise it'll remain a pile of sleepers until fluff knows when! MOL
Finally this week
Amber Sent A Postcard
Amber sent us a postcard, yes, she really did, and she really meant it!
Here's hoping she's having a great time...
We'd love to tell mew what it said on the back, sadly we can't, as it was blank apart from the address!!!! MOL
Today's Really Random Photo
Fudge up the Tree with SPARKLES!!!
Look at this furry floofer up his favourite tree in the courtyard from December 2019, what a heathen! MOL
That's us done for today. We'll be back again on Friday for Melvyn's update from the Library Archive on Level Six, so do join us then, as mew know how much we love your company.
And if mew missed any other posts for the last week, here are the links:
The B Team's Sunday Selfie
Wing Commander Basil & The B Team
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