I do love growing things, it makes me very happy. Here’s an example of my small but perfect harvest 🙂
Me and Mr O. love broad beans so they are a must. I’ve never grown the yellow beans before and they have done really well.
Delicious cucumber, really sweet,
and my first ripe chilli is being used tonight in dinner!
I just realised that I haven’t reported on how things are doing in my green house. Well they are doing grand!
I have two lovely aubergine plants with fruit and more flowers,
four chilli plants doing amazing, full of fruit,
and twelve tomato plants, several different varieties, performing quite well.
I am so enjoying growing. All my plants are being fed with organic seaweed plant food. 🙂
I know I’m a bit late in telling you what I did this weekend but, you know, you have to do things to create your simple life! 🙂
Anyway, I made a Battenberg Cake
and a Garden and home journal.
And today I made this plan of our garden with the help of the plans for the garden work!
I now think I deserve a cup of tea (and a piece of Battenberg) 🙂
Well, not new garden really!
We decided that the garden needed to have some sort of design to help me manage it better. So we have had some garden work done to break it up a little. This is partly why I wasn’t blogging last year because there wasn’t much happening other than ground work.
The main thing was to put paths in to facilitate different garden areas.
This also has provided me with some more garden beds.
One of the things I’m most pleased with is my new rose arch!
Starting as I meant to go on, I planted some spring bulbs in the autumn when the work was finished and I am now starting to watch them peep through the soil 🙂
What a beautiful day! 🙂
Oh yes, it’s that time of year when I review my seeds and start planning what I’m going to sow. I just get itchy fingers, only put off by the cold weather!
I had some packets left from last year and bought a couple of magazines which had free seeds with them so I have a good amount of seed to go on with. All I need is some winter sunshine to get me out to prepare for sowing! 🙂
Despite the neglect, my tomatoes a doing surprisingly well 🙂 They are showing signs of irregular watering but still taste delicious!  
The same goes for my peppers and chillies.
I’m planning to roast and preserve the peppers in olive oil
and dry and freeze the chillies 🙂
