Summertime.. the word alone brings a smile to OUR faces.. WE offer apologies to DeBose Heyward who not only wrote the book Porgy upon which the opera Porgy and Bess was based but also the lyrics for the song.. with music by George Gershwin.
For at lonng last, it seems as if summer has finally decided to stay around. WE have had fresh onions and SHE pulled up one of the strongest looking garlics, the smell and taste were perfect, but they need another few weeks to bulk up.
Now being picked and eaten are lots of different varieties of very delicious and tasty salad leaves, masses of lubbly-jubbly rocket (arugula) and mizuna.. hot and tasty!
The beans are growing perfectly but poor peas are suffering from that slow start, there are not as many as there should be which is strange as beans are not complaining.
Those 'poor' tommies which SHE planted in April, admittedly, with lots of protection, are growing like crazy folk!
WE are pleased to report that the brassicas are all growing on well and having been very carefully netted to prevent those flying thieves munching their way through, it looks as if WE will have delicious green things to eat this winter.
The fruit is all beyond wonderful, last autumn and again in the spring, SHE scritched and scratched around their bases and put down blood, fish and bone or growmore and with the wet spring, this has fed all of the bushes and trees and WE will have a bumper harvest this year.
Lots of work means lots of vegetables.. and vroom vroom.. who do WE have here? One of the best reasons for gardening and growing YOUR own vegetables is.. drum roll please.. is so that YOU can eat 'new' potatoes!
SHE pulled two plants last Wednesday, a Rocket and a Swift.. the Rocket potatoes are planted in slightly softer soil, so SHE was not surprised to see twenty tubers, which is a decent amount off one plant of these delicious creamy yellow tatties, the Swift plant yielded fourteen.
Snip snip went the clippers and three good sized Globe Artichokes fell into the basket. Then taking a bucket with water.. SHE went snip snip along the Peony walk and amongst the Roses as well.
WE had guests (Joanna and Jean-Jacques Darcy from Dallas) arriving and so SHE wanted their room to have lots of glorious home grown flowers to greet them.
Back home, the flowers went into the bathroom with a full bucket of water, bathroom is cool.. this allows the flowers to drink and relax from their shock of being cut.
The Peonies have truly excelled themselves! How glorious they are. WE are told by OUR guests that they love looking at them..
Flowers grown with love.. nothing better than to be able to grow such things.. in HER garden.. things have to be one of three things.. edibubble, fragrant or beautiful..
I am off to b-e-d.. early start tomorrow.. pip pip Dear Readers.. pip pip.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 29th, 2013.
For at lonng last, it seems as if summer has finally decided to stay around. WE have had fresh onions and SHE pulled up one of the strongest looking garlics, the smell and taste were perfect, but they need another few weeks to bulk up.
Now being picked and eaten are lots of different varieties of very delicious and tasty salad leaves, masses of lubbly-jubbly rocket (arugula) and mizuna.. hot and tasty!
The beans are growing perfectly but poor peas are suffering from that slow start, there are not as many as there should be which is strange as beans are not complaining.
Those 'poor' tommies which SHE planted in April, admittedly, with lots of protection, are growing like crazy folk!
WE are pleased to report that the brassicas are all growing on well and having been very carefully netted to prevent those flying thieves munching their way through, it looks as if WE will have delicious green things to eat this winter.
The fruit is all beyond wonderful, last autumn and again in the spring, SHE scritched and scratched around their bases and put down blood, fish and bone or growmore and with the wet spring, this has fed all of the bushes and trees and WE will have a bumper harvest this year.
Lots of work means lots of vegetables.. and vroom vroom.. who do WE have here? One of the best reasons for gardening and growing YOUR own vegetables is.. drum roll please.. is so that YOU can eat 'new' potatoes!
SHE pulled two plants last Wednesday, a Rocket and a Swift.. the Rocket potatoes are planted in slightly softer soil, so SHE was not surprised to see twenty tubers, which is a decent amount off one plant of these delicious creamy yellow tatties, the Swift plant yielded fourteen.
Snip snip went the clippers and three good sized Globe Artichokes fell into the basket. Then taking a bucket with water.. SHE went snip snip along the Peony walk and amongst the Roses as well.
WE had guests (Joanna and Jean-Jacques Darcy from Dallas) arriving and so SHE wanted their room to have lots of glorious home grown flowers to greet them.
Back home, the flowers went into the bathroom with a full bucket of water, bathroom is cool.. this allows the flowers to drink and relax from their shock of being cut.
The Peonies have truly excelled themselves! How glorious they are. WE are told by OUR guests that they love looking at them..
Flowers grown with love.. nothing better than to be able to grow such things.. in HER garden.. things have to be one of three things.. edibubble, fragrant or beautiful..
I am off to b-e-d.. early start tomorrow.. pip pip Dear Readers.. pip pip.
GeeGee Parrot.
June 29th, 2013.
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