Kale

Our garden Kale seems to have had very few caterpillars this year, not sure why this should be as there have been many White Butterflies flapping around the garden this summer.

Sloes

I’ve never seen so many sloes on our tree before, Normally we have one or two branches but this year they are everywhere.

The First Borage Flower

The first Borage flower has arrived. Love these plants, the flowers taste of cucumber and are perfect in salads. Plus they are the colour of summer skies.

Raspberry Time

The first summer fruit to ripen in our garden are the raspberries. We started off with two plants and now we have about 10. Really great for putting into cheap lemonade and making a nice summer drink. Luckily the birds don’t bother to eat these, they are far too busy trying to nibble the strawberries!

Evicted Tomatoes

You know we are reaching summer when I evict the tomatoes from the conservatory! Much as I would love to keep them safe inside I’m allergic to their leaves so they were making housework interesting. They are much happier outside I’m sure.

My Garden Gallery 27th May 2020

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Rose ‘Blue Moon’ in bud, the peony in flower, a ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ flower and the tomatoes that I grew from salad tomatoes destined for the compost heap, which taste rather nice!

Lockdown World Day 49

The latest in the line of windowledge plants, this time a pepper plant. Never have much luck with these , but who knows perhaps this will be a good year for them. Yesterday was a funny old day, brain fog early on and just general feeling of tiredness and not accomplishing much ( depsite doing laundry/ cooking/cleaning and all other carer duties). It’s got to be the general climate of uncertainess that is doing this ( and the fact I skipped my allergy tablet as well …whoops)

So recipe to beat bordeom today , how about a spot of weed identification ? https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/beginners-guide/control-weeds

Lockdown World Day 37

These are my tomato experiment – the tomatoes from Lidl , that were in the crisper, headed for the compost, that I grew instead. These were just seedlings when lockdown started, I had taken part in a live chat on Youtube hosted by medium Chris Fleming and had mentioned that we should be all trying to grow something on our window ledges . Well these are now far past the window ledge stage and in flowerpots on the floor of the conservatory and are producing wee mini unripe tomatoes. The world carries on and nature finds away.

Boredom buster today, go grow something https://foodrevolution.org/blog/reduce-food-waste-regrow-from-scraps/

My Garden Gallery 29th April 2020

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The first Blueberry flowers, two gorgeous Bearded Iris and the Arum Lilly , all with raindrops as it has been raining.

Lockdown World Day 28

Day 28, and I admit that it finally got to me yesterday, just for a few hours. The isolation, the inability to escape , the places I would normally be going. The coping with Misophonia also means that I can get awash with adrenaline and anxiety, but you pick yourself up , I’m a carer I have to , life has to go on.