22nd June 2004

The Changing Face of the Garden

The garden is always changing as some plants finish flowering and new plants begin to light up the garden with their colour. More vegetables have been planted, although they now need a lot of rain to help them grow.

Say Goodbye to the Poached Egg Plants

After taking over parts of The Garden for the spring with their yellow and white flowers, the Poached Egg plants are now setting their seeds (where their flowers were pollinated) and preparing to make way for new plants to take over their space. Their seeds will remain in the ground until springtime next year, when once again they will grow and show their fantastic flowers.

A Flower or a Weed?

In the right place, these giant poppies can look fantastic. They can also take over a garden and many hundreds of these plants have been uprooted and taken out of the Vegetable Garden.

The Beans will soon be ready to pick...

All seeds start with a flower, and the beans are well on their way to growing some beans to harvest. All we have to do is feed them, water them, give them plenty of light, keep them warm and wait.

And There's More...

As well as the Runner Beans looking set to provide a good harvest this year, the Broad Beans and Lettuce planted in the garden are also growing well. We have one broad bean so far! We will have to look out for slugs. They like lettuce and will thank us for planting them.

The Blackfly are here!

If you ask anyone who has a garden about blackfly or greenfly (they are both types of aphids, small insects that suck the juices out of plants for their food) and their face will probably look upset. In a short space of time, a plant that is looking healthy can suddenly be covered in blackfly, causing it to grow poorly and, sometimes, to die.

You want colour? We give you colour.

Just outside the house of Mr S., a flowerbed is full of colour. We don't know what these plants are as they just grew their by themselves, but they look great. The bees were as pleased as we were, who spent much of their time buzzing in the blooms.

Do you know what these flowers are? If so, do let me know as I will tell Mr. S.

(August 16th) We found out. They are called Candytuft. They sound as though you could eat them, although that would not be a good idea!