Another garden!

I must be mad, I have taken on a new garden, shoe-horned into the bit when I used to do the school run. But I can’t resist overgrown herbaceous borders with the potential of finding something really good under the brambles.

Add to that a customer who just wants it to look more colourful and doesn’t mind me turning up whenever I have time and I was itching to get started. I even remembered to take some before photos.

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Having blithely said it wouldn’t take that long,I found more brambles than I bargained for and an hour’s work didn’t look that productive.

However, on my second attempt, cutting through the tansy and willowherb I found some bricks. It looks like it is some sort of square pattern and there is a matching one in the opposite border.

So watch this space and hopefully a beautiful garden will emerge. I can’t wait to find out what else is in there.

And back again!

Here I am back after my holiday and guess what? Everything survived, it turns out I am not indispensable or maybe it was down to all my hard work beforehand, and a bit of luck. I had to cut my way back into the vegetable plot but just look at the pumpkins!

Also in need of a bit of taming were the tomato plants. I cut back most of the lower leaves, and all of the new shoots, to let the light in and the fruit ripen. This will also help the scotch bonnet chillies, hopefully.

 

In my own garden I returned to masses of french beans all too big to eat so now they are waiting to dry and be saved for next year’s seed or stored for eating in the winter. The outdoor cucumbers are still good and the courgettes remain productive now that I have removed a few marrows.

The one seedling that survived from the packet I sowed is also doing well, shame I haven’t got a whole border full!