My home grown harvest, April 2016.

I'm still waiting for anything new to grow, but I'm eating things I planted last year! 

I planted pretty red spring onions in the pots either side of our front door last autumn and they're just ready to pick now.  I love the colour of them!  I used these ones in a chickpea and couscous concoction that's nice as a side dish or to take to work for lunch.

The garlic chives are finally big enough to harvest!  You can definitely tell the difference between these and normal chives!  Garlicky!

The good old rainbow chard is still going, I can't believe how much I've had from 6 little plants!

What are you growing and harvesting this month?  Do you have any early crops to eat yet?

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My homegrown harvest, March 2016.

This month's harvest is much like last month's harvest.  But I'm happy with that, it's pretty happy-making to be eating plants I put in the ground last year!

These spring onions were in a pot by the kitchen windowsill, and have been there all winter.  They'd grown so close together they were impossible to pull out, so I had to dig them out in a clump.  They're the nicest, most springiest onions I've ever grown. 

I'm still eating from my rainbow chard and perpetual spinach patches, I think the plants will need replacing soon so I'll sow some more seed.

I'm trying to make room in my front garden raised bed to plant some carrots, so I'm thinning the onion and garlic planted there now.

How's your garden?  Have you been harvesting anything or growing anything happy-making and good?

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My garden, January 2016.

I've been making an effort to pop out into the garden for 20 minutes or so every time the weather is nice enough to.  I've been doing a lot of weeding, especially of the gravel on the driveway!

I've weeded the bed down the side of the house and then covered all the bare soil with fallen leaves I raked off the lawn.  I read somewhere (I can't remember where!) about using fallen leaves as a mulch over winter, to protect bare soil from getting too weedy and to add nutrients to the soil as they break down.  I'm giving it a try this year, I'm all for free soil improvement!

I'm still picking home grown rainbow chard and spinach beet, as well as spring onions and some herbs, which I'm pretty happy about.

My front garden raised bed seems to be doing well.

My bulbs are popping up, I've got daffodils, crocus and tulips.

Here's the garden, views from each end.  I have it in my head to paint the green fence white once the weather's drier, I think it'll really brighten up the garden and I can't bear to look at the multi-tone green fence for another year!

There are lots of flowers still in bloom, and lots of plants seem to be putting out their spring buds already.  I'm a bit worried.  Is this global warming?  I have my fingers crossed that a frost won't come along and kill all the plants, or if it does then they manage to grow back!

How has your garden been this winter?  Any exciting plans for your new year growing?

Some of my gardening posts you might have missed, filling a raised bed with the lasagna method, make cork plant labels and my visit to a beautiful walled garden.  

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My garden, October 2015.

It's been feeling very autumnal this month, and to be honest I've neglected the garden a bit because it's been chilly and because I've been super busy!

I'm really happy with my raised bed (I filled it using the lasagna method!).  I've planted garlic and onion sets, and leek, rainbow chard and spinach beet from seed, and they've all sprouted and they're growing!   I planted some strawberry plants down the edges too.

My great excitement has been this sunflower head.  I harvested a few seeds for myself, to plant next year, then hung the head up with some string on the fence.  I meant it to be a bird feeder, but it's been attracting my furry friends too!

Talking of seed heads, did you know snapdragon seed heads look like little skulls? 

I don't want to speak too soon, but there's a courgette growing here that hasn't been eaten by a slug!!!!! (yet!)

I planted some wildflower seeds and butterfly friendly seeds in the side garden, this is the only thing that's grown from those seeds.  I think it's nigella, it's really pretty!

And here's the whole garden.  It needs some love this month, and possibly a water, it hasn't rained for ages!  I'll get round to that next week, this week is crazy (extra work, 2 birthdays, a wedding, naming ceremony and a friend visting!  Eeep!).

This is the garden from another angle.  One day it'll be a lovely patio area with a pizza oven.  For now, it's a mess, with some pots of herbs and tomatoes.

How's your garden this month?

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Home Grown Harvest, September 2014.

This is what I've harvested from my garden plot and balcony this month,

I looked after my mums house while she was on holiday, the blueberries, sweet peas and single hazelnut are from her garden.  Dissapointingly, there was no nut inside the shell of the hazelnut, which is probably why the squirrels left it!  They always beat me to it!   Apart from that I've had lots of courgettes, mini sweetcorn, the last of the broad beans, and a few leaves of rainbow chard. 

Are you still harvesting anything from your garden?