Yes, we are the proud parents of a huge but fairly undeveloped onion and two very twisted carrots! But boy did they taste good!
It is so great. Pip is getting so into the vegetable gardening and is really getting to taste how much better they taste when they've grown in your own garden. This is not just us being biased - they actually DO taste better than supermarket vegetables!
We are eating our own potatoes nearly every day, and our own sugar-snap peas ever time there's enough to provide more than 3 a piece... It's such a great feeling, and the best part? SO easy... Just stick 'em in the ground and watch them grow!
After all that rain and miserable weather we finally had some dry, and even some sunshine, so I panicked and washed two whole loads of laundry and hung it out to dry, quick before it could rain again. We don't have a dryer, which is fine mostly. In the winter it all goes over radiators and dries in no time, and in summer we have three washing lines. The only problem comes when it is really really rainy in summer because (of course) the radiators aren't on! But today I am looking at the bottom of a laundry basket - a sight I don't get to see all that often. Hooray!
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After.
Aren't poppies wonderful? They come for free, look beautiful in bloom and elegant afterwards.
In other news...
We had a slug attack on one of the pumpkin seedlings. Hope it survives and starts looking more healthy than this!
The sugar snap peas are hugely prolific. I have learned a lot about growing peas this year. First time I have done it, and so not surprisingly it was a learning experience.
Lesson 1. Don't plant so many around one teepee. They start out small, but they get big and they get tangled and they get prolific and you can't see, let alone get to all the peas for all the greenery.
Lesson 2. Plant more peas! We really really like them. Must plant more, just more spread out... I envision LOTS of teepees in my future.
Lesson 3. Don't try and grow the beans up the pea poles at the same time. Yes, they grow slower, and produce later, probably after the peas are finished, so I thought I was being clever about successional sowing but even so they are getting really lost in among the peas... hopefully they'll make it through!
The hebe and the borage are both covered in flowers and covered in bees and very happy. Which is great because the perennial geraniums (which Spike so enjoyed watching the bees on) have finished flowering and have been cut back which the hopes that they will put forth another flowering later in the year.
And that's about the size of it. It's a busy time of year in the garden. Lots of weeding, but also lots of wonderful flowers and lots of delicious food being produced. Hooray!
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