With the addition of Audrey the pumpkin to our garden this year there has been a miraculous change in my husbands view of gardening. This has led to a garden revamp and an interest in grow your own fruit and veg. This blog will now chart the future changes in our suburban plot and our efforts to grow a few things for the table.Audrey (named after the plant from Little Shop of Horrors) has grown to a huge size and on Sunday will be cut for judging. She had a mixed start and we nearly lost her when first planted out. All her leaves turned yellow and she was
on the point of giving up. I decided to re-pot her and she has lived in a pot since. The area she is currently occupying will become 2 new veg plots. Unfortunately the corkscrew willow will have to go but it is really too near the house.
on the point of giving up. I decided to re-pot her and she has lived in a pot since. The area she is currently occupying will become 2 new veg plots. Unfortunately the corkscrew willow will have to go but it is really too near the house.We managed to finish the small trellis fence and have planted some rosemary to one side. The robin box has been moved and hopefully this next year our robins will have better sucess in raising a brood. This year the parents abandoned the nest leaving 4 young. In changing the garden we are trying to keep as much for the birds a possible and to create new nest sites as we had a colony of sparrows on the honeysuckle which has been removed so that we can repair the fence. I will find a spot for some more, maybe behind the weeping pear tree we planted last year
A greenhouse is also being planned and we are just working out the size of the base. You start one job and it leads on to many more. Before the greenhouse can be put up we have had to replace the fence and dig up a small circular patio. In true recycling style I have reused the patio and put it round the bird table.
Although I have now realised why we go through so much niger seed. I think that the goldfinches and siskins just spit it out.
Growing the pumpkin made us try so
me new veg and we have had great success with baby aubergines. We will definately grow more of these next year. We have also started some late cropping potatoes in barrels and tubs and hope to be able to get a crop for our Christmas dinner. They have just started sprouting! The idea of growing our own sprouts this year as ended in failure as we have been hit by the cabbage white plague. We will try again next year.
me new veg and we have had great success with baby aubergines. We will definately grow more of these next year. We have also started some late cropping potatoes in barrels and tubs and hope to be able to get a crop for our Christmas dinner. They have just started sprouting! The idea of growing our own sprouts this year as ended in failure as we have been hit by the cabbage white plague. We will try again next year.The patio apples have now arrived and I have repotted them and will coddle them on over the winter. The Kiwi 'Jenny' also arrived and we now have to decide where that will go. Goodness knows where we will put the olive tree
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