The Patch

26th May 2005

Set Me Free

Plants are very patient. These Sweetcorn, Spinach and Runner Bean plants have been waiting a long time to be planted out. Today could be thir lucky day!

Thank You Mr S.

The Gardening Club will get itself a reputation for taking over places if it's not careful. I do hope that Mr S. was not planning on growing his tomatoes this year, as we have taken up all the space. Still, hopefully most of this will be planted out very soon.

Ready For Lift Off

It is amazing how a garden can suddenly look full when canes for the Runner Beans are put in. This is it then. No excuse now. The Beans have to go in...

The Wild and the Tame

Buttercups gaze across the garden from its side. They shouldn't be there as they are a weed in this garden, but we haven't had time to weed it all and they do look quite nice...

Mini-Deforestation

This looks like a small scale version of what is happening in the Amazonian Rainforest. There, trees are cleared to make way for roads and places for people to live. here, the Honesty 'forests' have been cut down to make way for a planting patch.

They're In and Off!

Finally, the beans are in. Well, actually, this photo was taken a week or so after they were put in, and you can see how they are already twining their way up the canes. It won't be long before they reach the top!

Ravishing and Ready

the first harvest of the year is just about there. Radishes don't take long to grow. We will have to harvest them quick though or they will get too old and they taste very hot if they do this.

Onion Row

The onions have grown well, well, at least upwards. Hopefully they will start to fill out to produce big onions before long.

Hippo Amonst the Eggs

The Mini-Garden Hippo is still watching everything from his tree stump. Poached Egg plants may tower above him, and Nasturtiums may, yet again, threaten to wash over his tree stump, but he is just content to stand there and let nature do what it will. A Mini-Garden Hippo has lots of time to think about these things.