Garden Blogs

What a marvelous weekend! Finally planted out my veg - all lovingly grown from seed and now protected by a wall of chicken wire as Bugsy is elusive and still happily feeding on various flowers etc. I'm sure the veg would all be gone by now if it wasn't for the wire. Anyway, in have gone the beans (runners and dwarf french), mangetout and sugarsnap peas, sweetcorn and squash (good planted together apparently), courgettes and beetroot. The potatoes are up and doing well and I've also sewn seeds of carrot, parsnip and cut and come again lettuce. Non-stop veg gardening also meant I was in the greenhouse 'til dark pricking out seeds of all my brassicas and moving tomatoes around to make more room - like the day of the triffids in there at the moment. Totally shattered Sunday night but very happy indeed. Much watering has followed due to the very hot weather and perhaps I shouldn't have planted in the middle of the day but everything seems ok. Water butts are all empty and I gave them all a good clean out - the hose pipe and the labs was great fun but I was certainly the wettest of us all! Off to say my nightly prayer to the god of good growing weather........happy gardening. Samx