Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup? Even though you can feel the changing of the season it is unusually warm. Most days are reaching 20-21C/68-70F, which is very warm for the area this time of the year. The nights are very warm too, which is perhaps even more unusual. Last night it did not get colder than 15C/59F, we don’t always have nights that warm in July (even though we did this year). At the same time the leaves are starting to change colour. It is almost surreal. The Jerusalem artichokes (in the photo above) are getting taller compared to last years bumper crop, the tallest of them are reaching 3,5M/11.4ft!
My first cucumber plants died due to the cold weather we had in June, as did most of my tomatoes. I planted more in July, just to try and see if it was possible to get a harvest, thinking that the worst thing that could happen was that I wasted a few of my seeds.
Not all of my tomato plants died in June. I already had one harvest, even though it was smaller than usual, (since some plants did die in that cold period we experienced). Perhaps I will get a second harvest from the new plants (above) that I planted in July. There’s around 100 new green little tomatoes on the way and it looks like it is going to stay warm for a while.
The strawberries keep producing. I picked a good number yesterday that I served my daughter for dessert. They are very sweet.
The apples are coming along fine.
So are the plums. We haven’t tasted any of the plums yet. It won’t be long now.
Of all the herbs I’ve been growing, Oregano is the one that’s thrived the most 2025, with lovage as a good second. I haven’t spent that much time in the garden this week, but the time I did spend there was “my time” and it was wonderful.
As usual I’ve been on some good bike rides, some longer walks and overall it’s been a very active week. Besides the school literature I am currently reading I also managed to read two books just for fun (a total of around 1000pages). Both books were in Swedish, one taking place in Stockholm and one in Southern Spain. They were both good entertainment, but not books I would recommend to anyone, and I can not see them being translated to English. I am still happy that I read them. I like reading different kind of books and it was a long time ago since I read a thriller (both these books had more excitement and wrongful deaths than the books I usually read).
Would you like a refill on that coffee? Tell me about your week! Thank you Natalie for hosting the Weekend Coffee Share! Natalie also enjoys biking and in this week’s coffee share she shares a beautiful bike ride.
Maria
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