There is a lot going on in the Casa Grotta veg garden, and little monsters appearing in the geranium pots! This is Samson, he and his little sister Delilah will be going to their new home next week
This is the onion/brassica/bean patch. Have just lifted a barrow load of onions some are enormous!
We also have some corn growing here, but high winds last week gave them a bit of a battering…
Our baby Apple tree, heavy with fruit. I think we should have taken some off to allow the larger ones to fill out….
A sun flower, of course…
The Apricots have been amazing this year… made lots of jam and dried some plus made a kind of trifle for dinner at friends
And the parsnips are going well too, trouble is the chicks love ‘em too so have to protect them.
Strawberries, which Freya loves! What is it with these animals who want to eat our food?
Tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, celery, cucumber, you name it it’s here, and the shade from a heavily laden fig tree.
Woops forgot to mention the courgette, we have two plants but one not doing so well.
Tomatoes galore!
One of my favourites, the bath tub full of flowers with basil and coriander growing well below.
Chick peas, rather a lot of hard work for little return.
It’s mean a mixed month weather-wise. First temperatures hit the 50 degree mark and we (and veggies) were melting by the moment. Then we had very gusty but balmy winds which battered tall plants and nearly blew our gazebo away – another 3am trek outside bleary eyed to remove the cover. And now, temps have drop to high teens, we’re layering our clothes and it’s raining… can’t win can you?
