I still don't dare to let my courgettes outside their cosy tent. They are always so fussy when temperature is concerned. My tomatoes get a little plastic blanket each night. Because they are planted deep in the ground and don't stick out of their containers, they shall manage alright.
This time I've chosen not only to sow vegetables, but also flowers. This plan came to me last summer, when I discovered that I had places in the garden where I wanted to have flowers, but they never bloomed there. So this time I thought to do it the cottage garden style, just plant a lot of flowers in pots, and where ever you find a boring or empty spot in your flower garden, just place the flowers from the pot there. So easy, and yet so brilliant.
I love to watch flower buds. These are really tiny, and you would easily oversee them. But if you look closely you'll appreciate the delicacy of the flower, with it's tender pinks against the luscious greens. The whole knob of this flower is just half a centimeter or so.
I love having my birthday in May, especially when people ask me for presents, I always could do with some plants for the garden. So here I received a lovely mint plant and a lavender kind I've never seen before.
I also got seeds from another friend, great stuff! The reason why I've never made a photograph of my entire garden is that I have a hideous hedge on one side. Really brown and three meters high. The previous owners of my house had cut it off to closely one summer, and so I was looking against a brown hedge for multiple years now. But I've asked my neighbors if they would mind something new. I first thought that they would object or they would wish a new hedge. But instead they choose for a better option. We shall have a fence between us. Really great, low in maintenance and no chance that it will grow so high so that I've hardly any evening light. It wasn't there in an instance, but it is lovely all the same. I first was worried about the color of the poles (I had ordered white, which they clearly aren't, but they are really nice all the same.
The grapes are finally starting to grow. They are a little white among it's growing tips. I hope that is alright and not some strange disease or something. That's what I love about springtime, everything is so freshly green and full of life. No decay to be seen yet (I hope). Just lushious velvety baby leaves.
It took ages for spring to take off. But finally my cabages can play outside in the sun. I hope this little guy makes it, his stem has been damaged during transplant, always a tricky thing.
I must say, thanks to the one that has really thought out this plan, for it is genius. I only have to water my strawberries once in two weeks and they love it in there!!! They grow like crazy.
My peas really took off. I would really need to plant them outside, but I just can't, it is still far to cold. Next year a dream shall come through when I have saved enough money to get a glass house attached to my house. There the peas could grow as high as they would like, but here, just in the window sill, it's a bit cramped and crowded.
The cabages get quite big inside my comfortable warm home, but it is still far to cold outside, to let them even out for an hour or so. And yes I know I really need to wash my windows, but hey, there is always something to do in and round the homestead.
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AuthorHi, I'm Bregtje. Here you can find me with my head up side down in the garden. But I also can be found with my head in a newly home made cupboard or above the kitchen stove or even between piles of paper, sticking stuff in arty albums and brushing away with paint! And now I'm developing a new hobby to add to my ever growing project list: blogging about it all! Please find my Garden blog, Kitchen blog, Homemaking blog and Arts blog here! Archives
August 2021
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