Not been doing a whole lot cos i’ve been ill and the weather has been crap, but it’s ok because the garden has been doing things all by itself. Here are a gazillion pics of all the things growing.
cherry tree planted last autumn
raspberries happy in their new bed
Blackcurrants
Globe artichokes
Asparagus (and weeds!), most plants started from seed last year, plus 2 crowns planted this year
Red onions and one elephant garlic
Climbing (telephone) peas
Rocket, carrots (just coming through) and radish
2 of the blueberry bushes
The one bit of the garden that actually looks pretty
Crazy mixed leaves in the greenhouse. I need to eat more salad!
Perennials to be planted out, weeds 🙁 and a tomato plant…moneymaker i think
Sunflowers
Silver birch has nice leaves on, and the lawn needs mowing badly.
Acer and dragon lily
Strawberries, from runners taken from my parents last autumn, and 2 honeyberries at the front waiting to climb the arch
We dug in some spent colonised straw and a bit of new straw into the soil in the greenhouse, and it worked! oyster mushrooms, yay!
Kiwi plants
more telephone peas, long overdue for planting out
even more telephone peas, these are for the plot
stocks and perennial cornflower
‘trail of tears’ climbing french beans, and a few caulis hiding at the back
Tomatoes (i think these are costoluto) and morning glory
Dwarf french beans ‘saxa’ on the left, climbing beans ‘trail of tears’ centre and right
Globe artichoke ‘green globe’ at the front, tomato ‘san marzano’ centre, 2 watermelons, 2 butternut squash and 1 aubergine at the back
more telephone peas for the plot at the front, romanesco caulis in the middle, and one lonely morning glory at the back (the others are already in bigger pots)
Giant pumpkin at the front, middle right is a tray of mixed squashes and 3 courgettes which haven’t germinated yet, back right is more romanesco caulis, left is asters and busy lizzies
cucumbers! and in the prop are 2 types of cherry tomato, and aubergines
french marigolds
What I discovered behind the compost heap yesterday. Goddamn polly.
All cleaned up!
I wanted greenhouse staging but couldn’t afford it, so this is the results of an afternoon’s work and some old timber I’d collected, plus a pallet that I couldn’t dismantle, but gren did it for me.
I got bored of pics at this point, but I also have indoors/in the other greenhouse sweet peppers, 3 or 4 types of chilli, physalis, passionflowers, 2 more types of tomato, asparagus, basil, oregano, swede, turnip, purple sprouting broccoli and 2 types of sweetcorn. And probably more things I’ve forgotten.