Crikey it is 2015 and no posts for such a long time....
I won't bore you with the gory details but the past year or so have been somewhat turbulent. Now I am really striving to get my health back on track and what better way to do it than get 'mucky' in the garden.
So what has prompted this decision to get blogging, well a few things. I miss writing, along with gardening it seems to help my mood, I've been motivated by watching the recent allotment challenge, which I did have an interview for, but obviously black cat and I failed to make a good enough impression for BBC 2 :( However the well deserved winner has been posting online and got me thinking about the veg plot again.
2014 wasn't a wash out, by no means we had a productive year in the garden with a mix of flowers and veg - I will post some pics.
2015 has already come around.....I had a productive day a few weeks ago, pruning the autumn raspberries and spreading some muck. We made the mistake of answering an ad in the paper offering free horse manure. Well let me start again....Andrew answered the ad, and after a long day at work I came home to a drive way with a ton of muck to barrow and shift to the back! We did it and we have let it mulch down to a sweet friable loveliness of goodness. I have spread some on the rhubard too. I have some big plans for 2015, but time, money and health dictate... If we get the same as we did last year in produce I will be happy.
Raspberry and rhubarb bed..... The plum tree in the background, an unknown variety, misold as Victoria but I think is Marjorie's Seedling. I took pity on it it was in a bargain bin unloved! I'm a sucker for a plant on sale. I wouldn't recommend buying sick or ailing plants, you want one in the best possible condition but I took pity on this. The card around it is to stop black cat from scratching it. The posts of hazel are for the blackberry Loch Ness, very productive in 2014, still some in the freezer, great for smoothies!
Autumn rasps need pruning in Jan/Feb they fruit on new wood, the blackberry fruits on the wood put up in the summer, so I pruned out the wood that fruited on this and left the one that hasn't - confused - I was!
Just an early 2014 post of the small recycled pond we made and aliums and apricot foxgloves - I love the changing colours in the garden, fresh and green in spring, matching the pinks and blues and pastels - then late summer the greens fade and age working with the hotter colours so well. The small tree is cherry Stella - a self fertile eating variety - we had some, the blackbird had most!
Oh, black cat, she has of course been guardian of the plot, but there is a new cat on the block, a rather handsome Norweigan Forest Cat called Rocky. We have had a few turf disputes, but Rosie seems fine, but always happier when we are in the garden together!
Rosie always manages to find a cosy comfortable spot, usually whilst I am working away!
Bye for now and more soon
