Finding our way in the garden

This is our first crop of spuds - OK crop is way too grand a term for it, but I am inordinately proud of our first ever potatoes. We planted three seed potatoes in a sack on 4 April and today rifled through the bag (after the tops died back) to find the best part of a kilo of beautiful, delicate Maris Peer earlies. Ah lovely. Can't wait to eat them - wonder what to cook.

A few other pics from the garden - for a variety of reasons we can't plant anything in the soil itself and have had to adapt in a variety of ways...

Like pots of many varieties - of lettuce and mange tout
 - we've enjoyed plenty of both already.

Lucy likes to get involved in one way or another

Often its eating the produce of the garden - she gobbled up the first strawberry before I could capture it on camera

 A droopy cherry tomato wondering if the Belfast climate is right - wettest June on record.














And some lavendar picked this evening - all this gardening is enough to make you sleepy.