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| A hint of colour, my sweetwilliams that I grew from seed last year |
Sorry for my absence it has been a rather busy couple of weeks getting back into the swing of things since our trip which now seems ages ago! I have yet another lovely cold, I have had more colds since I have given up smoking ( 9 months!) than I have in the last 20 years! Jay has one also so it was obviously the change in the weather.
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| the swamp with an ongoing hole that grows by the day! |
It is now raining quite heavily again and we have it for the weekend according to the weather forecast. I have just cleaned out the girls and the run is a... atchoooooooooooo swampy mess. No gardening has been done, I have been too tired and the weather just wasn't cooperating! I just had a wandered about and the weeds are flourishing so are the broad beans and peas.
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| Peas, beans & weeds! |
The potatoes are also growing very well, I have already filled up the bags with more soil and greenery is poking out the tops of the bags. I do look forward to the first potatoes of the year fresh from the garden, the taste is out of this world.
The onions are growing well too, swede is now showing and so are a few scraggly leeks. The leeks in the greenhouse are doing just fine, there are not many, but what ever I get this year will most certainly be a bonus.
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| Leeks in the greenhouse |
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| Rhubarb top left, onions, weeds and bottom left you can just see the swede |
The strawberries are flowering as are the blueberries. The girls have ravaged the gooseberry and tayberry bushes so I am not holding my breath of getting anything from either of these.
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| One of the Blueberry bushes |
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| Forlorn gooseberry bush |
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| bedraggled tayberry bush |
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| Strawberry plants |
However I am considering moving the fruit to the front garden. I have mentioned before about the strip of garden down the side that has now overgrown somewhat and looks bloody awful. So plans for later on in the year I will be relocating all the fruit bushes to the front garden and may even add a new fruit.
Well another busy weekend lies... atchoooooooo ahead, a craft fair tomorrow, Adam will be holding the fort at the shop. Sunday morning will be running around getting jobs done and the rest of the weekend I am going to relax and enjoy!
I hope you all have a grand bank holiday weekend here in the UK
and for those of you further a field I hope you all have a wonderful time whatever you maybe doing.
Finally I would like to say a big hello and welcome aboard to my new followers, I hope you have enjoyed it so far. Until next time x
It's been cracking the flags here so we've been in the garden catching up with jobs.
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Hi Mum, just been to read your blog, I am trying to catch up. Glad to hear someone is getting nice weather, we did actually have sunshine today but I was Stuck in a church hall. Hopefully the sun will shine again tomorrow x
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