2 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

I'm going away on Friday and really looking forward to it. The only drawback is leaving my garden for a week. It is a good time to be in the garden right now. Lots to do and it's growing fast in both ideal and less preferable ways. It can quickly get out of hand in a week. So I've been trying to get as many jobs done as possible (all jobs done is never possible) and harvested some stuff and generally tidy as my mum will come to check on things and water. Then I thought I would take the opportunity to wax lyrical about my garden for a post. This is a particularly nice little spot in my garden right now. The little blue flowers are green alkanet, technically a weed, but one I am very sympathetic to. They are at the foot of the pumpkin arch. I have two half-barrels of strawberries. One is under a net, which I don't like the look of but the squirrels and pigeons absolutely pillage the strawberries and they just need to leave some for us. Baby sweetcorns. You can't see it in the photo but…

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