Showing posts with label cherry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cherry. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 February 2020

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.

Look at this little blossom! 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

It's a cherryplum and I hope the weather doesn't go too crazy and blow the blossom away before it gets pollinated!  And look at these crab apples, still holding on, I love the colour of them.

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

It's been so long since I wrote about my garden.  And that's because my camera's memory card corrupted so I've lost like a years worth of photos.  But I have a new camera and a new memory card and I'm backing everything up like crazy!

I got some pennies for Christmas and I used them to buy this b-e-a-oootiful new trug.  I have lots of bulbs to plant and I still haven't planted them all - woopsy!   I also bought some mini fruit trees from Thompson and Morgan, the kind that stay really small for pots on the patio, the trees are nice but there were grubs in the pots (maybe vine weevils!) so I wouldn't buy these ones.  But I'm looking forward to having 2 new apples, a pear, a plum and a cherry!

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

I made this cute little project one winters day.  I hope to collect lots more cute little tins to make a little display somewhere. 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

My back garden raised beds still have some chard going in them, but not much else.  There's messy bits everywhere that need dealing with, and theres Still that big pile o' dirt at the back of the garden that I'm running out of inspiration for!  My potting table broke too, I need to find a new one. 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permacultre #ukgardenblogger

My little garden robin is still keeping me company. 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

In the front garden raised beds I've been picking kale and chard all winter.  The overwintered onions and garlic are going strong too. 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Can you tell I haven't done any proper gardening since last year??! 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Luckily the flowers don't mind a neglectful gardener and carry on blooming anyway! 

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

Diary of a suburban permaculture -ish garden, February 2020.  From UK suburban garden blogger secondhandsusie.blogspot.com #suburbanpermaculture #permaculture #ukgardenblogger

How are your gardens?  Have they survived the winter?  And the storms?  I hope so!




Sunday, 28 July 2019

My homegrown harvest, July 2019.

July's been a month of raspberries.  Sooo many raspberries.  I only have autumn fruiting raspberries, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them fruiting now!


I've had loads of greens too, which I've been shredding, wilting in boiled water, then squeezing into little handfuls to freeze, so I can use it later in the year.


We had our first, one and only cherry, it was delicious, the variety is 'sweetheart'.


My 'discovery' apples started falling off the tree so I picked them all, which was a mistake as they're SUPER sour and nowhere near ripe!  They're on the windowsill, I hope they'll soak up some sun and get a bit sweeter. 


I didn't manage to grow any carrots last year so yey for carrots this year!  The variety is 'berlicum' and they're really nice. 


I've also had loads of strawberries, purple snap peas, potatoes, beets, some baby onions and a little baby garlic.







What have you been growing this month?