We inherited a very lovely garden, as you'll have seen in the last post - and as yet haven't really put 'our' stamp on it. We've confined ourselves to weeding, and waiting to see what comes up / into flower next. So I suppose it's the vegetable patch that we've really taken 'ownership' of.
You might also notice from this an evolution in fencing technology; this stems from bunny insurgency directed at the first generation broccoli / sprouts - which unfortunately didn't survive.
Luckily we had some extra plants in the greenhouse, so were able to replant once the bunny fortifications had gone in. Thus far these seem to have worked - and our brassicas are growing unmolested.
We've had a few potatoes (leaving the plants to mature now until early August), and the onions are coming along nicely, but it's our peas that are looking most impressive - the plants are approaching 6 feet tall and loaded with pods - just waiting for the peas inside to swell.
Our other success story is courgettes, we've got them in the greenhouse, cold frame (actually a mini-greenhouse taken from the old house and laid down on the ground), and outside - the ones under cover are doing particularly well and generating a good crop.
In addition to the veg patch and greenhouse, we've constructed a couple of raised beds, one for strawberries and one with carrots / beetroot in it (planted very late).
And there are the two apple trees we planted - which can be seen, together with the development of the compost heap (now corralled within some old pallets) - in the third garden picture from the other day (as compared to the second from May). Unfortunately the eating apples didn't survive, and it looks like we'll only get a couple of cookers. We had a sheep invasion one day - five of them squeezed through the hedge, and they took a bit of a fancy to apple tree. That was an interesting morning, herding sheep with my next door neighbour ...
3 comments:
Ah, what a nice and peaceful life!
Nature puts my mind at ease :)
Hi Sarah - well your peas knock mine into a cocked hat - highly impressive. Come to that so do your onions - I sowed mine directly into the soil and never saw them again! Next year I hope to be using the greenhouse to start them off so that I can do what you did this year and plant them out. What lovely views you have.
Hi Amanda - yep the peas came good (strangely Martin's Dad's, which came from the same packet, are only about half the height). We were so late planting out the onion sets, that a number had 'sprouted' in the bag - don't know if that was the secret to our success with these - of course all the rain we've had has helped! Not sure our potatoes are going to be that great, the tops kind of stopped growing, just hope there is more going on below ground. And yes, we really lucked out with the views!
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