Tuesday, 14 April 2020

2020



2020

SO, decided to start this year, and what a year 2020 to re start this blog. From January to late February we had lot of rain, the grounds were all water logged. 

Made a visit to the LG on a cold January morning, and was taken by a horrid surprise, the whole area was covered in weeds, and it looked awful and lot of hard work to get it into shape. 

Decided to walk away from it all, and come back again another day.

The visit was made on:
January 18th 
and this is how it looked....










The whole LG was like this bed....



Beginning to look better...



Did some weeding and managed to get one bed ready for planting, and so many more beds to tidy up.

After this visit came more rain, and that meant no more work at the LG until the weather improves.

We also now have coronavirus, which is going to mean we should not go out and self isolate, but can go to the LG as part of our excercise.


The next visit to the LG was on 


Sunday 22nd March

Lovely warm day, so we got going in tidying up further beds ready to put in some turnip plants.
I had started them from seed in a tray and propagated them in the conservatory.


Ready to go into the ground.

The ground all prepared to put them in



All in, I just hope the shoots do not get eaten by the many predators that roam this place when we are not here to watch our plants. so I put a net on top.

I had some onion and broccoli seeds and decided to create a bed and put them, they may or may not take off.



Well here is my onion and broccoli bed.


There was lot of spinach and chard from last year that had overgrown, so decided to harvest that.

Picked a bucket full of chard and spinach, this will be cooked into saag tonight. How fresh can you get.
there was also lot of rhubarb that needed picking too.



Once home washed and chopped the chard and spinach and made saag with half of it and steamed and pureed the rest for the freezer for another day.

The saag loaded with butter, garlic and ginger was delicious.


Thursday March 26th

Due to the coronavirus we have all been advised to remain indoors. we decided to venture out today to do some more work on the LG. Lovely sunny and warm day, there were few other keen gardeners around working in their gardens.
It was just lovely and peaceful, could see and hear the birds all around us.

Cleared few more beds ready for planting.






I have got lots of different seeds in trays and pots at home, when they are hardy enough will put them in the soil.

So what have we seeded;
broad beans
peas
red and yellow beetroot
spinach
courgettes
squash
spaghetti squash
french beans
edamamme beans

No potatoes and garlic so far...

Coronavirus....has meant not being able to go to garden centre to purchase potatoes as they are now closed.













Friday, 10 April 2020

2019


2019 

A year when the blog did not get a look in. 

I did however, take photos every time a visit was made to our LG.
It is now April 2020 and I have decided to do a picture blog of the photo taken last year.

First visit of 2019 in February shows the barren LG needing lot of work to get it ready for sowing and planting.


February 



                                                               


                                                                            Tidy bed.

9th April

Rhubarb ready for harvesting
                                                          Dwarf fruit trees in bloom.



                                                          Broad beans and courgette

                                                                        Flower bed...

19th April


                                          Hard work in getting the beds ready for planting

April 22nd


                                               Peas propagated at home in the bed today

April 29th

                                                            Bed ready for potatoes

                                                                  Friendly visitor
                                                             Courgettes and squash

12th May

                                                           Day to pull out the weeds



                                                            Broad beans have taken off
                                                         Onions and garlic doing well
                                                        Courgettes bit slow this year
                                                              Yummy rhubarb harvest

19th May




                                                                            Beans

25th May



                                                                            Sweet corn

                                                                             Beans


1st June
 


18th June 

                                                             Mange tout and potatoes

                                                                     Broad beans
                                                                      Onion harvest

                                                                           Artichoke 

21st June 




23rd June

                                                   Unplanted poppies sprung up this year








29th June



1st August 




                                                                   Harvest of the day


18th June





 21st June



23rd June







29th June



1st July Our harvest








12th July further harvest














26th July

















4th August - Time to do weeding.






                                          So much weed



                                           Spinach and chard harvest
August 18th
                                         More weeds to get out
                                                                         After

                                                                        Potato harvest


After this visit to the LG, I was away from it until November.
Then came the cold and wet weather, so tidy up for spring and getting the LG ready for another season did not happen.