More Construction

While its winter I have been doing some heavy construction work. I have got sleepers in to replace my fathers "dry stone wall" which kept falling down. I think it looks brilliant and it will help with the plants that are there and give them some support.

I didn't get rid of his dry stone walling to quickly before I could say anything this has been put up at the end of the bed. I don't mind it as it will stop Lucas digging there and I am going to try to grow things in the gaps of the stone.
There was a left over beam which is in my squash patch because one side of the patch has the old iron prongs that have been twisted into the ground and I can't get them out and there is lots of rubble there and so I am making it a raised bed on one side.
My father also put up this to stop Lucas escaping. It looks much neater.
Bad news. My cottagers kale has died. But I live in hope I am leaving it there till the weather warms up to see what happens to it. Fingers crossed.

Snow

My vegetable plot is a frost pocket, it seems to attract snow, everywhere else in my garden has practically melted the snow, but mine still looks like its just had a fresh helping of snow. I have parsnips but can't find them, and don't want to start randomly trying to dig where they are meant to be in case I damage them. And you can only see the tops of the leeks. Don't get me wrong I do love the snow, I think its so beautiful, especially because it covers all my weeds.

Getting Ready For Winter

I have dug round the apple tree and made that little bed bigger as I am going to be growing two climbing roses, rambling rector and something else can't remeber the name. They should be arriving next month. I have also hard pruned the tree as I won't be able to do that as easily once the roses get going.

My kale and some carrots i had attempted to grow for Christmas in the cold frame didn't work.

My kale still tastes bitter which is a shame as last year it was gourgous we ate kale nearly every night. So I am going to try a different seed packet and variety next year. I will probebly use the rest of it in a Sarah Raven recipe for making crispy seaweed.

Fig has been fleeced.

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.

What I Have Done In The Garden Today

I have tied up my asparagus so not to blow in the wind to much and they are going brown slowly so I will be cutting them back soon.

All the cosmos and no squash.

My experiement potatoes for Christmas I have put some in the ground and some in a growbag in the greenhouse. Fingers crossed.

My beetroot is so big now. I think it will soon be chutney.

Magnificent Kale

My squash havent worked out this year so I will be boasting about my kale. They are the most beautiful, tallest, healthiest, Chelsea perfect Kale you will ever see.

Fence And Pretty Flowers

Elderberries and damsons I found while out foraging. Making Elderberry vinegar and damson and apple jam.

Out of all the gardens I have seen this year my cosmos is the tallest and in my opinion the best. It needs some dead heading though.

My glowing brassica netting.

Built the another section of my fence. This is nearly killing me but it looks so good!