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 🙂
I’m very happy with what is happening in my green house.
Broad beans ready to plant out,
These potatoes ready to plant,
Tomatoes ready to pot on, peppers and cucumbers,
Mixed chilli peppers,
and a couple of strawberry plants I’ve bought inside to get some early fruit.
It’s time now to sow courgettes and squash. Growing things makes me happy, but I wish the weather would warm up! 😉
Despite the major neglect of the garden it is still producing wonderful things for me!
I think it’s the best year for beetroot in a long time and my carrots haven’t had carrot fly this year 🙂
…and the first proper fruiting of a young apple tree. The apples are still quite sour so have to stay a bit longer, but I must keep an eye out for scavengers!
We’ll soon be building a new chicken house, so watch out for that 🙂 I’m very excited!
