Garden

Garden, originally uploaded by richiesoft.

Spent all day last Sunday in the garden tidying up and sorting things:
planted tomato plants
planted potatoes
sewed butternut squash
sewed courgettes
cut grass
dug over vegetable patch
mowed lawn
trimmed edges

Rain Rain Go Away...

What is going on? It seems that we are not going to have a summer this year! My garden appears to have all gone to seed and is very overgrown and yet I am unable to get out there and weed or tidy unless I want to get absolutely soaked!

The beetroot and lettuce have all gone to seed and the onions I think need to come up to be dried off in the shed. There are weeds everywhere too. Luckily I popped out first thing this morning before the rain and mowed the lawn!

Growing

After a wet morning the afternoon really brightened up so I have made the most of it and been out in the garden doing some jobs. Firstly I weeded all the borders and the vegetable patch and then I mowed the lawn. I have then treated the lawn with a weed killer/ feeder that I know is not very organic but I hope will get rid of some of the weeds in the lawn.

The top picture shows where I have planted out three of the courgette plants that I have grown. Two into the peat free grow bag and the other I thought I would try in a pot - see what happens anyway - I just hate throwing the other plants away! I have still got about five tomato, five pepper, four butternut squash, four chilli, and three cucumber plants to find space for. I think I am going to need another grow bag!

The lettuce you can see in the second picture are doing quite well and I am still waiting for two other lines I have sowed to grow. That reminds me - I must put some more slug pellets down tonight....