Sunday, 9 October 2011

Quick round-up to show what's happening in the garden



The wormery producing "black gold" and a sign warning that the worms are such great gourmets.



Finally I managed to discover the bees coming out their hole in a sunny day. Beautiful animals, aren't they?



Shieldbug caught doing his/her business on the garlic chives...



While almost everything else is going dormant, this sunflower opened amazingly just a couple of days ago!

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

End of the summer

It's been a while since I posted the last entry not because there is nothing to show but because of being busy with various activities. In the meantime the garden has been changing every day and thriving with colors and scent. And producing lots of stuff.

Many bountiful fruits such as tomatoes, courgettes (botanically fruits), raspberries, and salad leaves such as chard, spinach and of course herbs among other things have been filling our garden to the point that sometimes we are not able to cope!!

Wild life is also very happy in Fairlie Grow, we found a colony of bees (not honeybees though) living in a hole in one of the planters. (I promise to post a photo when I have time)

These photos are 2 weeks old but are worth looking. Click on the photos to make them bigger:



Achocha climbing through the trellis. It is a southamerican cumcumber relative, very beautiful and vigorous.



Tomatoes - so heavily cropping that they will break the branches unless they are helped with canes and strings!



No pumpkins on sight yet but we don't lose hope. Runner beans however scarce are delicious, especially a round type one.



 
More tomatoes - too much greenery in my opinion but isn't it nice the smell they have?

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Our blooming garden

Geranium x oxonianium 'Claridge Druce'   Pisum sativum (garden pea) flowers
Shiva                                                    Cosmos bipinnatus flower        






wildife and fruits











THEY ARE BACK!!!

in the last couple of days i must have picked 100s! let's all arm ourselves with empty humus pots and let's go get them! ;)
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