edibles!!

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nothing better than growing your own i say, at its best in season, here are a few pictures of what im growing for food, or just garden nibbles ha ha.

i have 1st 2nd and 3rd year strawberries, some of the plants have 9-12 flowers on them.

iv also got a 9 hole planter with 1st yrs in them and big polystyrene contaners with 3rd year ones, there doing the best but i only have 6 of them, plus a carpet of alpines and a container full, oh and not forgeting my strawberry jeans, over winter the jeans have went tatty looking but still fits a purpose and when the runners come off i can just cut the leg and tuck it in x

tomatoes, done them for 3 yrs and still not had a tomato yet, so heres hoping this year, iv since moved these into grow bags in ma wee plastic tomato greenhouse outside.

im just germinating konsa cucumbers, thats veronicas project cos she loves cucumber, and direct sown runner beans, butter beans, peas, i have succesion carrots growing away, and another set to do in a few weeks, a 3mx4m area of potatoes, and pots with chives, basil, oregano, mint, sage, tymme and lavender so am fairing pretty well, oh and im gonna try sweetcorn this year, need to get it in this week though.
i spent the whole day in the garden yesterday, its a tuesday thing, i done the same last tuesday as much as my little girl loves the garden i get more done when shes out having fun with her cousin, so tuesday is ma garden day, all the grass got cut and beds weeded,everythng got a mulch and fresh compost in the beds, and plant food, seen to pests ie lilly beetles, kept going over every 10 minutes and there would be a new pair, crunch!!
planted new plants i got from a wee fair, the lady told me the names of them all, seive heid…… lungwort was the only one i remember, the wee blue and pink flowers, pretty. but the rest of them are in so i will see how they get on and what they turn into.

my wee pond, i was hoping for tadpoles but nothing, before i put the pond inthe garden used to be full of frogs and toads, thats the reason i put a pondythingy in, but there are no frogs, none that i can see anyway, i did find a newt when i was cleaning it and there are loads of wee tiny pond creatures in it so it cant all be bad.

the view upto the arbour, that nothing is growing round yet, despite having 2 clematis, and ivy, this is where my sweet peas go, i loved all my tulips this year, just cut the last of them tonight so i can get them lifted and use the bed for something else.
my wee victoria park i call it ha ha, i love those red rhodies, and i just moved the camelia back here and its coming on leaps and bounds, so many more flowers.
this is the tree i got from the lady across the road, does anyone know if i cut the top from this tree, will it do it any harm, cos just now its looking pittiful??

i sowed my 5 varieties of sunflower too, eeeekkk im so excited, i absoloutley love them, majestic flowers, i like the more autumnal colour ones like earth walker and autumn gold and velvet queen, also u get more than one flower from a stalk, great for bouqets and vases lol.
after my catastrophies the past few years with sweet peas i decided to cheat and buy shop already germinated plants, probably cheaper that way too for me, i have them to plant out soon too.
so thats been my week in the garden, may is here, but as i type it is torencial rain and my garden is waterlogged, its still warm in the air so heres hoping the stories iv been hearing about it being the hottest on record are true x happy gardening x

• 7 May, 2014
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