A walk in the garden when I should be working!!!!!!!!!!!

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One of the problems working at home is it’s all too easy to become distracted and focus on other things. It’s such a lovely sunny day today, I don’t want to be in my studio, I want to be in the garden. Writing this blog is a half way measure to actually climbing into the loft to begin work!
Because we had such a late start and I live north, the garden is slow this year to get going. But, I have taken a few snaps, which I will update as things move on.

These are the front of the house. The little border was built by Mick 2 years ago and is full of annuals and some hardy perenials. I use it to add bright colours against the stone.

The veg and soft fruit garden is just beginning to take off, beans still very slow.

The standard bush things are gosseberry bushes, given to me by my Dad. They never had a gooseberry in his garden, their 2nd year here and they have quite a lot of fruit. After the goosegogs is a strawberry bed. Not a lot doing this year as I just moved them there in spring. Then there is an onion and garlic bed and then a courgette and squash bed. A big rasperry bed to the right of the gossegogs, onions and courgettes has provided an excellent screen from the scrapyard area – ooops sorry Mick your restoration projects, silly me.
I put a few lettuces in a growbag quite early on and they flourished like mad, nearly ready for 2nd planting out of the lollo rosso, webs and iceberg. Have got a new variety of red iceberg coming on, will see how it shapes up, never tried it before.

The greenhouse has my tomatoes, a couple of peppers and aubergines and some basil that doesn’t like outside too much. As with all my veg, everything is grown from seed. A great company is The Real Seed Company. They are online and I think are utterly brill. They put the big boys to shame. mind you, after reading some of the blogs re T&M, not difficult.
The blackcurrent bushes along the right hand side of the wall looking up to the house are teeming with berries, but late this year cos of the weather.
Finally, the last shot is of the swallows nest in the barn. I always love it when they come back home and shed a tear when they leave for their winter sun. They are part of what embodies an English summertime for me.
We are still on a steep development curve with the garden here. Taming North Yorkshire field is not an easy task, particularly on a shoestring buget!!! It can be a little frustrating when the sheep or ponies escape and trash 6 months work. But touch wood, not too much damage this year so far! (Fingers crossed) Last year the sheep ate all the sprouts (which I hate anyway) and I wondered about letting them eat the rosemary and roasting them, there on the spot with the sprouts still inside them. The ponies devoured 2 David Austin roses this spring and thoughts of glue came to mind. Heyho a gardeners lot can sometimes be a frustrating one!
Bye for now Jx

• 15 Jun, 2010
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