This month we got new garden furniture! It's so lovely to sit out in the garden in comfort and the set is modular so it comes apart and goes back together in lots of different configurations.
In other, actual, gardening news, my front garden raised beds are going good. The potatoes have all come up and so have broad beans, peas, coriander, borlotto beans, carrots, beets, onion, garlic, kale, cabbage, chard, sweetcorn, peppers and tomatoes. I love having 4 raised beds instead of a car on my driveway!
In the back garden my raised beds need some attention, but I've got broad beans and dwarf borlotto beans and lettuce and a crazy cauliflower in one bed, and some onions and bolted chard in the other.
I planted some 'walking onions' a while ago and I guess it's their time to go walking, cos they're growing little onion bulbs on their tops and flopping all over the place trying to plant themselves.
My Hotbin composter seemed pretty full so I emptied it and got some lovely compost to spread on my cottage garden bed.
Speaking of the cottage garden bed I've been pulling up all the many, many, many forget me nots, chopping up some of them and laying them down as a mulch, then putting a layer of Hotbin compost on top. I've also watered with worm wee from my wormery and sprinkled some poppy seeds and other random seeds that came from cleaning out my seed tin. I hadn't added compost here for a few years and you could definitely tell, the poor soil was as dry as dust.
My Aunty Rose (not my biological aunty, but the lovely lady who I lived next door to for 20+ years when I was growing up) died this month, and I inherited (or rescued!) quite a lot of her chipped kitchenware that was heading for the tip. One of those things was this old colander, which I've lined and filled with sedums. I did this little metal watering can too, it was left in the garden by the previous homeowners and it leaks, so it's much cuter as a planter.
My apple trees have set some fruit! Yey!
That's it really. The garden is looking pretty and I'm feeling pretty tired after doing lots of gardening this month!
How's your garden doing?
Your garden is looking amazing! I am so impressed with your raised beds!!! The walking onions are so quirky! I love them!x
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