tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59413596764586149142011-07-30T13:34:20.931-07:00mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10085612549092965597noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941359676458614914.post-6398791709088044582010-07-08T12:59:00.000-07:002010-07-08T13:35:26.567-07:00Three weeks on and the veggies are going great guns , i've posted some new pics , and the weather is set fine. Dunno what it is , maybe my age (51 this year shhhhhhhhhhh) , but i just love sitting out and watering the garden and smelling the honeysuckle bush that fills the air in the evenings.<br />Parsnips - growing like there is no tomorrow<br />Carrots - shooting up<br />Beetroot - if the size of the tops is anything to go by then i've got some massive beets<br />Spring Onions - seem to be catching up now<br />Lettuce - just keeps going and going had many a good salad off them already<br />Blackberries - just going black<br />Blueberries - starting to turn blue ....... lol<br />Strawberries - first crop done and now second croping<br />Runner Beans - winding their way up the canes<br />Potatoes - producing well , earlies have cropped and had 8 good meals from them and the others aren't far away from croping to<br />I'm actually sat outside right now 21.10 in the evening , honeysuckle filling the air and a familly of housemartins swooping down low in and out of the house screeching like they are having the time of their lives , every eveningit's a pleasure to sit out and just watch them. Of course the flowers are bloomimg now to ......... lol but thats another story , can it get any better , i think not.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5941359676458614914-639879170908804458?l=micks-place.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10085612549092965597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941359676458614914.post-36664664287291821392010-06-20T04:16:00.000-07:002010-06-20T12:34:46.927-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZgVpGxgbNg/TB5sAEbtBOI/AAAAAAAAACU/eTcidtdVvdA/s1600/100_0339.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YZgVpGxgbNg/TB5sAEbtBOI/AAAAAAAAACU/eTcidtdVvdA/s320/100_0339.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484940144629581026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This year i decided to branch out with a few more veggies than the potatoes and runner beans of last year . Nothing to grand just to see how things went so the top end of the garden has become a fruit area and nearer the house a veggie area . The fruit area consists of dwarf apple tree , dwarf pear tree , thornless blackberry bush 3 varieties of blueberry bush and numerous strawberry plants . The veggie are is contained in a raised planter which is 8 feet long x 2 feet wide x 2 feet deep , whci contains little gem lettuce , spring onions , beetroot , carrotts and parsnips with 3 varieties of potatoes in grow bags and runner beans in 2 containers . The veggies are something i spotted while browsing , they are single seeds attached to bio-degradable tape , spaced at just the right intervals as to not need thinning out when they have grown and they are working out just right .<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5941359676458614914-3666466428729182139?l=micks-place.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10085612549092965597noreply@blogger.com1