Semi-urban Paradise
It's raining, so spending time in my (i should say 'our', but it's really mine hehe) gorgeous garden is not going to happen. Yesterday however, i did plant some lovely sweet peas out in the garden and created some obelisks out of bamboo for them to climb up. Lets just hope the slugs don't find them.
In our garden we're going totally organic, not one pesticide, weed killer or slug pellet in sight. We're composting all of the garden waste (we have a mammoth compost heap now!), and ridding ourselves of weeds the old fashioned way which is on yer hands and knees ;-). It really is back breaking work, because our garden is huge. We love it, though, it gives me purpose, and a place to escape. We're growing veg, of course, this year we've gone for 'Alicanté' tomatoes, purple sprouting brocolli, sweetcorn (which we've had excellent results with before), peas and carrots (which are bright red!).
When we bought the house, the garden was so overgrown, the grass was up to our chest. It hadn't been looked after for years, which was a pity, but in that fallow time, it had allowed lots of wild animals to take refuge in the garden. The slug population isn't huge, and we encourage native birds like thrushes to inhabit the garden, they are our pest controllers. They adore slugs and snails! We also have frogs, many of them in fact, which helps keep pest numbers down.
So far i have managed to excavate our veg patch, which is now home to our ever-burgeoning compost heap, the purple sprouting brocolli and peas. The cottage garden patch, which will house a combination of old-fashioned cottage garden plants, medicinal herbs and hybrid tea roses, is mostly cleared. The sweetcorn is having to share that patch at the moment, though, due to space restrictions on the veg patch!
As we've got frogs, we're hoping to put a small pond in amongst the cottage garden patch, which will be mostly hidden by plants at lower-levels, thus allowing breeding of frogs in peace and quiet.
There is nothing like sitting in the garden, with a cup of tea, feet up, after a day of pottering around weeding, sowing, and mowing :-)
In our garden we're going totally organic, not one pesticide, weed killer or slug pellet in sight. We're composting all of the garden waste (we have a mammoth compost heap now!), and ridding ourselves of weeds the old fashioned way which is on yer hands and knees ;-). It really is back breaking work, because our garden is huge. We love it, though, it gives me purpose, and a place to escape. We're growing veg, of course, this year we've gone for 'Alicanté' tomatoes, purple sprouting brocolli, sweetcorn (which we've had excellent results with before), peas and carrots (which are bright red!).
When we bought the house, the garden was so overgrown, the grass was up to our chest. It hadn't been looked after for years, which was a pity, but in that fallow time, it had allowed lots of wild animals to take refuge in the garden. The slug population isn't huge, and we encourage native birds like thrushes to inhabit the garden, they are our pest controllers. They adore slugs and snails! We also have frogs, many of them in fact, which helps keep pest numbers down.
So far i have managed to excavate our veg patch, which is now home to our ever-burgeoning compost heap, the purple sprouting brocolli and peas. The cottage garden patch, which will house a combination of old-fashioned cottage garden plants, medicinal herbs and hybrid tea roses, is mostly cleared. The sweetcorn is having to share that patch at the moment, though, due to space restrictions on the veg patch!
As we've got frogs, we're hoping to put a small pond in amongst the cottage garden patch, which will be mostly hidden by plants at lower-levels, thus allowing breeding of frogs in peace and quiet.
There is nothing like sitting in the garden, with a cup of tea, feet up, after a day of pottering around weeding, sowing, and mowing :-)
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