So Exciting

My latest purchase an extremely tacky little statue, but I like it as it looks like Fred and it irritates my father as he thinks its an awful statue.
My daffodils have come out, looking tall.
Broad beans are coming on. I am growing summer savoy (I think that's the name) which is a herb which is meant to deter black fly.
May be early but already planted up my parsnips and a row of radishes in between.
Now this is the exciting part, first time seeing my asparagus. It looks good.


Got a willow gate in stead of my white stretchy thing I had. Which didn't go with the "look".

Clearing Up For Autumn

These melon pictures were taken in September just haven't uploaded them earlier. I am pleased I actually grew them, but I am upset I picked them to early as they did not taste nice and also the variety was not the best, it is more like a cucumber than a melon.
Moving on. I have cleared all my buckets of the bee plants and replaced two with daffodils for the spring and the rest with strawberries. These are an experiment as I read in a gardeners old tails book if you plant strawberries in a bucket filled with the soil from around a pine tree you will have the sweetest tasting strawberries.
I have been contacted by the people who decide what is a wonder of the world and they would like to make a new wonder of the world. So my fence would be the 8th wonder of the world. But I declined the offer because I am worried that the amount of people coming to see it will ruin the lawn.
Cut down my asparagus.
Potatoes looking good for Chrimbo.
Kale is to big for its netting.
Brussels going strong.
Other kale looking small but good.
Flower bed cleared. I am going to move my peonies here maybe they will grow if they have a bit more room and light.

Asparagus Has Arrived

My own compost not quite all the way rotted down but I needed it for my flower bed I have been building all day. I plan to plant cottage garden plants there.
Above are our new compost bins because the rats ate through our black one that you turn over and the compost kept falling through the holes so that's another reason why I had to use it early.
Those four bottles are covering the last four broad beans I have left because those a**hole pigeons didn't eat the others just plucked them out of the ground and they wilted and died. I know its them because I see them being fat and useless sitting in the tree just watching me garden plotting on how they can infuriate me next.
Back to the asparagus I have planted them the way I saw Toby Buckland plant them on Gardeners world. I also watched how Monty Don grew them but I will be honest his took up more time and I had ran out of steam.
I made the trench and did the raised bit in the middle to place them on.
All spread out nicely. I then covered them up and now I just sit and watch and pray that I did it right and I haven't wasted £10.