From the garden

Number 11 on my 32 things was to successfully grow some veg and fruit this year – I tried last year but the neighbours yard wall collapsed and left me with tomato plants that didn’t see any sunlight until mid July and gave me about 30 green tomatoes. Everything else was crushed under the weight of the bricks.

This year, even though the neighbours wall still looks like it might tumble down into our yard again in a light breeze, I thought I’d try again. We had raspberry and blackberry plants that had survived the winter and a rhubarb that was shooting back up, so earlier in the spring I planted strawberries, carrots, beetroot, beans and peas and courgette, and then beyond watering them regularly when it was sunny I figured I’d let nature take it’s course (read – I have no idea what I am doing so I left them alone)

But something strange happened to the berries – they grew, loads of teeny tiny berries started to appear and then they stayed tiny and went black and I figured that this would be a rubbish growing year. And then we went to Glastonbury. I left our neighbours with ‘if it’s hot please water’ instructions and thought nothing more about it. When we returned though the tomato plants had gone a little crazy, the bean plants had started holding them up too. But they looked happy, so I left them alone some more. And here’s what we’ve ended up with;

We have one courgette growing and 3 flowers. The carrots however, well, I think they needed more space. What do you think?

Fingers crossed, next year we’ll have a bigger house, with an actual garden to do some growing in.
Have you been growing this summer? If so, what’s your favourite thing to plant?