No animals were harmed during the shooting of this photo.
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Friday, 10 August 2012
Saturday, 9 June 2012
Fairlie Grow! at the London Green Fair
This morning Mal and myself set off with a bunch of the seedlings and cuttings we have been carefully growing during the spring.
The idea was to offer them on donation at the London Green Fair, where Cinzia from the Permaculture association had kindly agreed that we could have a little space.
It was really nice to see how people were interested in a project like ours. And we raised much more than we ever thought we were going to.
At the end of the day only a dozen plants were still with us and Les from Maiden Lane Estate volunteered to keep them and make good use of them.
Here are the photos of today's trip and a wee video for you to enjoy.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
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?
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
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