How does your garden grow?

Our vegetable patch - waiting for the first shoots!

How rubbish has the weather been this weekend? On the positive side, you could say it has been tropical - really hot one minute and then showers the next. Except the showers are not the lukewarm kind you get in say Indonesia. It has felt like October at times!  Wimbledon starts tomorrow so the weather is just about right I guess.

After the action packed events of Portland last weekend, Mat and I have spent most of this weekend working on the saga that is our Japanese garden. Weeding, cutting, trimming, mowing and sawing. There is still loads to do but we are slowly denting the mammoth task of prettifying it all and we also managed to get some planting done.  Woop! 

I'm very excited about our vegetable patch.  As it is so late in the planting season, we have gone for a variety of salad leaves, green beans, mangetout, purple sprouting broccoli, pak choi and 'ping pong ball' courgettes. I got very 'Good Life' writing on the label sticks and very much looking forward to seeing and eating the fruits of our labour. Just call me Barbara Good!  Thank you very much to Marc for lending his strength and helping shift our granite bench over to its rightful position. And as for the pick-axe wielding - I'm impressed!

Highly recommend the Fiskars Weed Puller for a bit of weed pulling action. I saw the advert and fell for the hype but this product really works so go and get one if you want to 'pull' next weekend :-)

Edward Scissorhands eat your heart out



Mat & Marc planting the cherry tree