Wednesday 4 July 2012

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.


2 comments:

  1. Very jealous of your early spuds, they look fab! Mine are a late variety and are showing a distinct lack of excitement in the growing department. Who can blame them with this wet and cold? At least the tomatoes in the greenhouse are marginally more enthusiastic though it'll be a while before the fruit is ripe.

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  2. Your garden photos are delicious! Wow, your very own produce! Nothing tastes better, does it!? I am envious of you, as our garden struggled this year. We are learning lots though :) Lucy is just a golden haired garden princess- soo lovely! I hope we get to visit your garden one day, meanwhile, keep the photos coming! We love you!

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