Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring and much wanted shade at times in the summer. I always thought that it I had planted the tree I would had planted a proper full blown cherry tree as I always feel just a little bit [...]
Archive for July, 2009
28 Jul
Wild Sunflowers
This is one of the two wild sunflowers that popped up this year. They are not the tallest at all, but a pleasant surprise – and they are both starting to open up.
28 Jul
Sprouts off to a good start
These had a bit of a shaky start but have now settled in well. The sprout plants are holding their own within the small flower seedlings.
28 Jul
The Day of the Herbs
So no more cats have dug up the herbs and really if they wanted to know they would be too late! The grow bag is full of growth and we are now finding it hard to keep up before bits of it bolt. The rocket as, err, rocketed, along with the salad leaves which are [...]
26 Jul
Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now it is certainly courgette time as we have millions of them of various sizes. So many, and this is just from two plants, that I am now pondering about using some in this recipe for chocolate courgette [...]
2 Jul
Tomato Flowers are Here
I thought the day would never come! We have had these plum tomato plants for months now and while they have actualy grown quite a bit over the last couple of weeks it is only now that I have spotted the first flower. So we might have tomatoes after all. The last week it has [...]
