How I love salad days.
Only two things that money can’t buy. That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.
John Denver
In terms of being a gardener I would say I was in my salad days. I am rather young and inexperienced..just finding my feet. This is our first year growing veg from seed.
With an abundance of sunshine and rain the garden is at last bearing fruit and it is exciting. It makes me so happy to look at the vegetables we have grown from seed.
We have lovely lettuces
and we have ravishing radishes
They taste divine and there is something so lovely about just popping outside to pick your tea.
The strawberries are ripening
and the raspberry fruit is starting to emerge
The sweetcorn is growing strong (look how dry the ground is!)
and the pumpkin is begining to bud
The herb garden I showed you a few weeks ago has gone wild and abundant.
The tomato plants are growing steadily too.
It’s going to be a delicious summer. (If you are wondering what happened to the carrots and spinach well so am I …hey ho!)Isn’t it all looking rather fabulous!
It makes my heart happy and so wonderful for the children to see how food can be grown in the garden from seed.
How’s your garden doing?
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Looking good! It’s such a wonderful pleasure isn’t it to be able to count your food miles in footsteps?
Mmm, you have lots of tasty things growing in your garden. I bet you can’t wait for them to all be ready to eat and enjoy! x
Oh wow, you have quite a collection! I wish I’d planted lettuce this year – unfortunately I have way too many tomatoes and strawberries and peppers blossoming to have been able to fit in a few lettuce plants.
Your garden looks like it is coming on lovely 🙂 And yay strawberries. My strawberrie plants haven’t produced this year. I look forward to seeing how your veggies turn out 🙂
*comes round yours for dinner* All looks so lovely and fresh, and you cant beat the taste of something you have grown yourself!
What a wonderful quote. Beautiful photographs, delicious looking crops.
So relating to this Becky – I’ve not grown from seed, just from baby plants, but I love opening the front door and picking lettuce leaves. Kitty picked some peas this week, she hates peas, but loves the ones in the pods we have grown – it’s such a special thing isn’t it – a good feeling? Simple things in life really are the best – here’s to many salads to come *rasies a radish cocktail* *
thanks for joining in again xx
*blatantly gin
Oh well done! The radishes especially look so lush!
Your lettuces are looking lovely. Nothing beats home grown 🙂 The pigeons have developed a taste for our spinach, perhaps they ate yours? I tried to grow carrots the year before last and the slugs gobbled most of the tiny shoots :-/
Your lettuces are looking lovely. Nothing beats home grown 🙂 The pigeons have developed a taste for our spinach, perhaps they ate yours? I tried to grow carrots the year before last and the slugs gobbled most of the tiny shoots.
I am impressed, my garden looks like it needs a bloody good mow!
Oh, I can’t wait until we move and I have space in the garden to start growing our own – it won’t be long hopefully! Yours is looking great.
Your strawberries look great. I can imagine how sweet and juicy they’ll be when you can harvest them. Yum x
Your garden looks perfect to me! So much green 🙂
Oohhh delicious summer sounds fun! But can i just say that it also looks like its going to be a very very healthy summer in your house too! Look at those greens and reds! #HDYGG
I would have to describe myself as still at the packet stage, I use not having a garden as an excuse when I could fill lots of pots with fruit and veg. I really must make more of an effort
It seems to me your veggies are doing pretty well even if you are fairly new to this. We have no runner beans get but most other things are thriving too.
Oh I love how well your veggies are doing, very inspiring.