Sunday, 5 August 2018

The wonders of growing fruit, vegetables and flowers

It is so satisfying to watch your garden flourish when you put so much hard work into it to make it look wonderful. And an even better feeling is seeing all the wonderful vegetables and fruit you are growing, which you will get to enjoy!

We have be very successful with potatoes, radishes, spring onions, onions, carrots, broad beans, runner beans and tomatoes already this year!

Here are just a few of what we have growing at the moment in the garden:

Cherry Tomatoes 

Our infamous beefeater tomatoes - these are huge! I am looking forward to weighing them when they are ripe

Scotch Bonnet Chili

Rainbow Chilis

Spearmint

I came up with a fantastic way to reuse plastic bottles, rather than throwing them out and filling a landfall site, I simply cut them open a little and plant vegetables in them. Then I hang them up on my patio and watch them grow!

Lettuce

Baby Strawberries

Pansy

Sweetcorn

Our neighbour gave us a melon plant a while ago, and we have some nice melons starting to grow now. They are just a little bigger than a golf ball.

Melon

And finally some Apples and Pears:

Apple

Pears

2 comments:

Serenata said...

A fantastic crop indeed and very tasty too.

Well done on all your hard work, it is paying off.

mamasmercantile said...

Wow, that is an impressive crop. Loved the tip about recycling old plastic bottles. It is a delight to become your first follower.