Potatoes!

Well after a few weeks of neglect and only basic garden maintenance due to my going into early labour (no baby yet, he's due on Friday ;) ) we had our first proper crop today.

Our potato plants flowered two weeks ago, so we dug up a plant out of curiosity today. Surprisingly, it had potatoes on the end of it :o




Also our strawberries are ripening nicely. Om Nom Nom



Our whitecurrants are starting to ripen, a lot of them are very red for whitecurrants though hehe




Blueberries have some fruit setting on them, not bad for first year bushes.



The red onion that we left to seed has started to flower, so looking good for seeds from those. According to the interwebs, as soon as the flower head starts to dry out we should cut them off and leave them to hang to get the seed out. Fingers crossed.




Carrots are coming along too, we picked a handful for dinner tomorrow




Also in the last few weeks we've


Deflowered *snigger* the yukka plant, it looked and smelled lovely but it was setting off Steve's allergies so had to go.



Noot the cat is careful watching the pot of catnip to let me know when it's ready to start harvesting.



Devised a water containment system for my potted cucumbers, they just weren't retaining water in the soil so now have mushroom punnets under the pot :)




Got lots of leafy growth on the horseradish pots



Lots of new growth on my olive and bay trees, and the dwarf runner beans are flowering :)




and a whole bed of greenery that needs to be harvested soon.




Gratuitous Abigail shot




More gardening tomorrow if we can, :)

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.