The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
We were back in the Growing Garden last Monday ready to finish all our clearing and planting – and harvest the remaining apples on our Bramley apple tree. Here is our chief apple picker hard at work. And here is chief apple picker’s mum Jacqueline… ….who not only put in a good shift on planting …
We are positively weighed down – if deliciously – by ripe tomatoes coming from our tomato plants – not to mention the cooking apples from the tree in the main garden. And now the beans are in full flow! Meanwhile the squash (or are they courgettes?) are obviously on something pretty powerful as they are …
The growing garden is a small allottment size piece of land beside my garden in Highgate. Once filled with beds and flowers, during the three years that I was working on the house it was abandoned to the builders – and then to the brambles. The brambles couldn’t believe their luck and made full use …
