The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
Here is our garden looking very fresh and lush all ready for our open day – and here we are in full cake selling mode on the day itself. And here is the lovely poster that Paula had made of our progress with the garden over the last two years. We were very pleased with …
And there are our potatoes sitting in their egg boxes in which they have been ‘chitted’ for the last few weeks in my kitchen. Chitting is pre-sprouting your tubers in the warm before planting them which, theoretically at least, can give them a head start. We were extremely lucky with the weather yesterday, getting the …
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 …
Things had got a bit out of hand in the planters – as you may have noticed in our last post. In fact they had got out of hand in the new pergola planter and on the pathway down to the garden too, the recent bursts of rain having encouraged the grass and the bindweed …
How is that for a fine crop of beetroots and baby carrots? The last of them pulled this morning after we has tested them out last week. Also harvested this morning were radish leaves – but alas only tokens of radishes! This was our second radish sowing and I suspect we may have overwatered them …
