2. Pick yet more courgettes and make soup (from about 5kg worth)
3. Make damson chutney for the OH - but only got 1.5kg of fruit - first check though that fruit isn't full of grubs. Rather hope it is.
4. Pick runner beans. Compost the rbs that are in the fridge (2 carrier bags full).
5. Ditto french beans.
6. Pick elderberries then compost last year's frozen ones.
7. Start picking some blackberries - major task here are they are in really difficult inaccessible places either really high up in the hedge involving ladders or on a practically vertical slope above the ditch full of 8 foot high nettles.
8. Make greengage jam from the underripe good fruit that I picked the other day in an attempt to get them before the birds/wasps. Hope they aren't full of grubs like the early ripening ones which have lots of blemishes/holes in them, so here's hoping.
9. Hoe veg patch which is getting really weedy.
10. Do loads of other gardening jobs which need doing, including my ornamental stuff.
11. Do laundry which is mounting up. Stare at the dirty floor covered in cat hairs and (not literally!) brush than one aside for the time being. Take cat to the vet (again). Go to shops to bulk buy sugar and vinegar. Dump cucumbers on neighbour as going past.
12. Scream and wonder why I'm doing this. It just gets all too much at this time of year. I begin to doubt whether I really want to be doing this at all.
Then in winter when I'm eating my chutney/jam/frozen soup/whatever it seems worth it. Need some sort of happy medium/balance I think!How do you all cope/find enough hours in the day/find the energy/find the ENTHUSIASM?
(thanks)
