Tag: July

  • Beautiful Mange Tout Purple Flowers

    Beautiful Mange Tout Purple Flowers

    I absolutely love this variety of Mange Tout – carouby de maussane and it’s all down to the two tone purple colour of the flowers. They are simply beautiful.

  • July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.

    The vegetable garden is in full bloom and everything is going well. Due to all the rain we have been having, there has been no need to put the watering system or use the water from the waterbutts, luckily it has all fallen from the sky so far. Here’s a picture of the vegetable garden…

  • Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest

    The salad, herbs and roots bed is starting to bloom in shades of dark red, lime green, mid green and a mixture of both and it looks even better on your plate at dinner time or in a sandwich for work. I love this shade of dark red lettuce with its frilly leaves that forms…

  • Sweetcorn – Try, Try, Try again

    Sweetcorn – Try, Try, Try again

    This year is the first time I have grown Sweetcorn. There has been mixed results and I am disappointed but sometimes that’s the way it goes, you win some, you loose some. The best thing with vegetable growing is that you can always try, try, try again. I only have two seeds that germinated out…

  • Growing Pumpkins for Halloween

    Growing Pumpkins for Halloween

    We are so excited as we haven’t grown Pumpkins before and we have always wanted to grow our own pumpkins in time for Halloween. We are sowing variety: Jack O Lantern – This variety is a perfect size for carving lanterns with soft orange flesh. Sow: May to June Harvest: September to October Top Tips…

  • Spinach Leaves and Strawberries Harvest

    Spinach Leaves and Strawberries Harvest

    We always grow Perpetual Spinach in our vegetable garden because it performs very well, time and time again, year on year. Perpetual Spinach is better than normal spinach because If you are reading this thinking I might give this spinach ago, there’s still time to sow Perpetual Spinach over winter in September or October for…