Om Nom Nom

Things are growing blumming everywhere. The garden is just exploding with life now, it's amazing!

This weekends photos

The red onion bed



A red onion, and two spring onions that we're trying to get to seed. The red onion has flower heads forming so we're hopeful :)





A teeny tiny comfrey plant. It was donated to us and I thought it was going to die off, but it's resurrecting itself :)



A giant squash plant - seed donated by Jo and we're having a little comp on who gets the biggest plant ;)


Another yellow radish ready to be picked



Horseradish plant :) This is the little pot, we have a big pot too but that's only just showing signs of coming through.


Strawberries!


Look Strawberries!!


There they are ;)


The loganberry is flowering


The cherry tree fruiting away, om nom nom


The lavender nearly in bloom


Earthing up the potatoes for the last time. We can't fit any more soil in! hehe



Same for the potato bags, all filled to the brim now :)



Worm of the week! :)



Dwarf beans planted out. They're sharing space with some overflow red onions. We have another 4 dwarf beans in pots on the patio too.



Aubergines! :) and some PSB getting ready to pot on


Blueberries and Wisteria



Exploding greenhouse



My Shirley Tomatoes. We need to pinch off the side shoots this week.


Spinach Beet. I think I'm going to harvest and quick freeze all these. We transplanted some thinnings into this tub and they've exploded, but we have a row in the greenhouse bed and 3 rows in a raised bed as well.

Frogs, Cherries and Potatoes :)

Apologies for the delays in between blogs, I'm struggling with SPD and can't be as active in the garden as I'd like. Wonderhubby is doing most of the work keeping it going, I just potter out once or twice a week to have a look and cut some salad leaves, hehe

In photo news this week..

My cherry tree looks like it's trying to fruit in it's first year :D



My potato plants are turning into triffids...just how tall do these things get? Abi likes pointing at them ;)


My first radish, I scrubbed it and ate it. It was nommy.

This is a yellow radish from a Marshalls seed trial. They seem to have battled the slugs admirably and I have a whole row that is about ready to harvest as and when I have a radish craving ;) The radish is on the right, the two other rows are beetroot.




Last night while clearing some old wood to put in the council compost bin we disturbed two little frogs. I hope they didn't go too far, they're welcome to stay and carry on eating our slugs.








Our overwintered habanero is fruiting beautifully already. Chilli at the weekend I think :)



These are the three (very slow growing) habanero seedlings. We've popped one in the greenhouse this morning to see if we can get it to get a move on.



The red chillis that we popped in a planter on our bedroom windowsill seem to be growing really well though :)

Potatoes and Blooming Bluebells

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's off to garden we go



The Rocket from last week has started to come up already.



The bed of Charlotte potatoes is really going for it now, we've earthed up the 4 or 5 plants that were over 15 cm tall. We'll earth up all of them next weekend.



We earthed up the Roosters in their compost bags too :)



The bluebells are blooming, and looking beautiful. We pulled up one that was growing through the middle of the path and gave it to Abi to play with...after I'd modelled it for a photo ;)



The whitecurrants have set berries on, we've netted them up to keep the birds off. The birds had taken some of the berries already, but I think we've saved 95% of them.



The cherry tree is blooming wonderfully, it's a shame we have to net it up.



The blueberry from Wigglys is all set to flower too. The one from Marshalls looks like it won't be bothering this year, but it's looking healthy so hopeful for next year.



The Wisteria is just beginning to bloom too, so the whole of that side of the garden should be covered in beautiful purple flowers within a week or so. Then it will be bee and butterfly mad back there :)