We've been planting out lots of our seedlings. Taking inspiration from the kitchen garden at Chatsworth house where they plant their veggies all mixed together in a radial format we've mixed up our purple sprouting, salad leaves and some flower seeds in a grid. We're hoping that it's all going to look very pretty in a few weeks time.
Our broad beans are doing very well. Unfortunately the peas we planted at the same time have been well and truely munched by the juvenile sparrows we've had around. Just not to be this year.
Being indecisive about where to plant out our sunflowers we eventually went for placing them all in a block in the middle of our veg patch.
We've recently hung out a new bird feeder to cope with the influx of the aforementioned sparrows. They certainly come in flocks and still choose to squabble over one or two holes despite there being plenty of open ones. The chickens of course continue to feast from the rejects!
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| Well trained sparrows throw the bits they don't like to the chickens... |
As part of all the clearing we did earlier in the year we revealed an acer that had previously been well hidden. It's thriving for the extra space.
Our alliums are looking as good as last year (sorry, not sure on the variety). I do love these flowers.
We've been donated quite a few broken fence panels for our wood burner recently. While we're very grateful for the free fuel our patio does currently look like this:
The small bed in the front of the house is looking relatively tidy at the moment, with the climbing rose (Claire Austen) covered in flowers and the penstamen just coming into bloom too.
We're very hopefully for a first cherry harvest this year. We planted this tree 18 months ago and it didn't try and fruit last summer. This time it's looking great.
The black peppermint is thriving this year. Joe has high hopes of a plentiful supply for peppermint tea.
And finally a few more plants in flower at the moment...
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| Last summers lavender plugs trying to flower already! |