Creating A Garden (Sort Of) Update 26-05-17

Greenfingers or what,!!!!  you have turned that plot into a sight to behold MC, you have been ingenious with the way you have used the space, runner beans and plums, I'm not jealous.....well maybe just a tad!!  

Thanks Wendy and Gaynor. I hope to have a bumper crop of fruit and veggies this Summer/Autumn.

Lovely Paul, goes to show what can be done in a year, with some hard work and effort. You better get that jam pan out for all that fruit and the chutney to be made with all that veggies!!!! Well done

It's all looking fantastic, MC. You have done wonders with your fruit and veg, you'll just have to watch out your feathery friends don't get in there first!!

They can't get to the blossom on the runner beans and they won't go for the plums. So far, they have left everything alone. That might be down to the amount of seed, fatballs, sunflower hearts and live mealies that they have. No room for homegrown treats. I just have to make sure they don't leave little messages for me!

One month on and the rainfall has had quite an effect. I spent several hours trimming some of the grass, which was well over a foot high and also trimmed a few plants here and there.

The runner beans are going nicely. The Kestrel potatoes just in front of them are ready and I have already had quite a few, Late cropping raspberries to the right of the runners

Rhubarb has thrived after all the rain and I even got two Loganberries although I only planted it a short while ago

I have yet to cut the grass (or even tidy up) this corner, but the insects seem to like it and so do the Spadgers

The climbers have not only reached the trellis, they are spreading across it in all directions

I'm assuming this is a Sunflower of some sort? Since it is in the new part of the garden, it can only have grown from a dropped seed, courtesy of the Spadgers or Ferals

Here's the Rhubarb

Not forgetting the Beetroot

Tomato anyone?

Another dropped seed. Any ideas?

Here's how it looks from above

The pansies just keep blooming and blooming

Victoria Plums

Marjories Seedling Plums

More Victoria Plums. You'd think they were grapes! Ashridge Nurseries, who supplied the trees in 2013, have recommended that I should remove some of the plums should they crop in such numbers next year. Otherwise they will only crop every two years because it takes so much out of the tree to produce so much fruit.

Wow that's an amazing garden you've created MC. I bet you feel really proud of yourself, all that hard work has paid off. Fruit, veg, flowers, bugs & birds, what more could you want?

Your plant in the pot could be another sunflower. It may pay to remove some of the fruit because if it plumps up any more the weight may be too much & cause the branches to break under the strain. Plum trees branches are quite fragile, although they look well supported in the photos.

Thanks Hazel. Just picked the first ripe Victoria Plum and had an unwanted free gift inside. A small pink coloured worm with a black head. Yuk! Hope that some of the crop are ok.

Your garden is looking amazing MC, you should be giving yourself a big pat on the back for all your hard work, there's nothing like picking your own fruit and veg, you no doubt feel pretty good.

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Thanks Hazel. Just picked the first ripe Victoria Plum and had an unwanted free gift inside. A small pink coloured worm with a black head. Yuk! Hope that some of the crop are ok.

You're lucky, I usually bite into fruit & find a headless worm inside!! Yuck! Moral of the story is to cut it up with a knife & eat the good bits.