Swan Plant Planted

So, I planted the swan plant into the garden today. It was growing in a container for a while ... and doing really well. Hopefully, the Monarchs will come!!!

Carrots, Corgettes, Garlic, Spring Onion and Parsnips!!

Well, as you see this is my first bumper crop!!! It's ther first time I've ever seen parnsips just picked from the ground. The leaves are really big, although the snip itself wasn't as big as I was hoping. But, the carrots were really good!!!!

Happy New Year!!!

So, the new year has come around again. It hasn't been very sunny though, but at least the sun was out today.

Over the weekend, I got busy again doing things. I got a nice new strimmer as an xmas pressie, so I put that to work in some of the difficult corners of the garden. I also had a crack at cleaning out our guttering, which was a fairly wet affair. Sadly, when installing one of the gutter witches, I managed to drop my screwdriver down the drain. Definitely not a good idea. I guess we'll have to wait and see whether or not we get a blockage ...

Anyway, things are now really getting over mature in the garden. The brocolli heads are starting to break up. We had brocolli last night, along with corgettes and again tonight! It could be on the menu for a while ...

Otherwise, the strawberries are ripening, and the cabbages I planted a while back are starting to grow properly now. I also put in some borage that we grew from seed, so hopefully that will give us some flower action later on ...

XMAS News

So, the brocolli has some decent sized heads. The Carrots are good for eating ... probably we'll have some on Christmas day. The peas have some pods, the corgette is also getting there ... time to start eating!!!!!!!

Grass Race: We have a winner!!

So, I think the grass race is officially over. As you can see we have a clear winner: the Tui mix!!

Now all i need to do is sow some in the lawn :)

Carrots, parsnips and cabbage planted

So, I put in some more carrots, parsnips and also a few cabbages today.

Carrots almost there!!

So, Chris came over to pick up his camera today, and I asked him how he can tell when the carrots are ready. He said, just pull one up and have a look ... so we did! And, it was definitely a carrot, although still a little on the small side. I put it back in, so hopefully it'll keep going. I think those were sown in mid-august, so they've done about 10 weeks now ...