June 30th

The Beauty of Nature

Last year a whole load of poppies just sprung up. This year one whole bed was just covered in poppies, so we left them to brighten the garden.

The artichokes turning purple. Soon we shall have beautiful purple flowers

The beetroot is ready for harvesting. Today's harvest

We had pea plants here doing so well. Then after a lot of rain and lots of sunshine, the pea plants were all taken over by the weeds.

June 22nd

Weeds, Seeds and Artichokes 

The weeds seem to take over everywhere. I am sure this is the worse year for weeds. I do not remember it this bad in the past.

Artichokes are just flourishing

Just love the way they open up, so big, so strong

Soon a beautiful purple flower will take centre stage

 Rhubarb

 Fennel gone to seed

Spinach gone to seed

The spinach has gone wild and whole plants just turned to seed. Amazing how much seed there is...

 Todays's harvest, rhubarb, garlic and mint

Garlic

Pallets from our next-door neighbour have made good borders for the beds

 Our friendly Robin

Water from the brook

21st May

There has been no rain for few weeks now, our water butts are empty and the big LG water butts shared by all have also dried out.

I put some tomatoes plants in two day ago and I know they need a drink.

So I filled 2 empty milk containers with water from home. It wasn't enough...BUT, there is a brook not far from our garden.

Off to the brook we go with our watering cans.

                                              Plenty of water in the brook

About twelve load of watering cans full of water from the brook did the job. The plants are now happy.

Getting there...

May 19th

Hot day today, temperature 22 degrees and getting hotter.

More weeding in between the beds. One bed is just full of poppy plants cropping up from last years seeds. Managed to de-weed that bed and removed about half the poppy plants, then decided to leave it as poppy bed.  

                                                               A visitor

Looking good, one bed ready, and I planted 5 tomato plants and 3 chilli plants. The soil is so dry due to lack of rain. Our water butts are almost empty, if we don't get any rain soon to keep the plants watered, we may have to go to the brook to fetch water to so feed the plants.

Pallets creating beds

18th May

Pallets wood is good for creating boarders, and we were given a few by our friendly next door neighbour.

Dismantling them is not easy, but we are getting there. Our beds are very large and I have a vision to create smaller beds. Gosh with all this wood our LG is looking like a building site.

                                                     It will look good when its done.

Hard work, good job its a nice warm day. Its so nice to be at the LG, instead being Locked down at home

Frosty Nights

May 16th

The weather suddenly turned cold with frost at night. So the beans and squashes I had germinated in the conservatory and planted, died of frost, all shrivelled and lifeless.

                                              I do not think they will survive

                                  Put some more beans plants in a different bed

               Vegetable spaghetti plants, grown for the first time. I do hope they survive

                                                         More slabbing

Slabbing Pathways and Weeding

May 7th

The pathways are just covered in weeds. Laying the slabs will make the paths weed free.

                                                                             Weeds

                                                                          Pathways

My job today has been to remove the weeds from the paths, whilst Mr S laid the slabs.

Weed free at last, but for how long.This will not be slabbed as its not wide enough.

One pathway completed