So far this year, I have spent NO time at all on the little allotment I have in my mother's garden. So during the one and only weekend in May that it wasn't raining, I popped over to visit my lovely mum. The sun shone and we grabbed the opportunity to do a little gardening.
We have decided to not bother with vegetables quite so much this year - we have never had any success with carrots, and although you can't go wrong with potatoes, they do take up an awful lot of room. This year we will be growing courgettes, tomatoes and onions, with perhaps a few leeks thrown in. And of course, beans.
So this means we have a little spare space to devote to soft fruit. I had a Blueberry and a Blackcurrant bush languishing in pots in my garden. Due to the chicken-vandals, there was no chance of them ever going into the flower bed - they would be stripped bare in no time. They are now growing happily next to a couple of raspberry canes donated by a gardening friend.
Blackcurrant above and Blueberry below
We have decided to not bother with vegetables quite so much this year - we have never had any success with carrots, and although you can't go wrong with potatoes, they do take up an awful lot of room. This year we will be growing courgettes, tomatoes and onions, with perhaps a few leeks thrown in. And of course, beans.
So this means we have a little spare space to devote to soft fruit. I had a Blueberry and a Blackcurrant bush languishing in pots in my garden. Due to the chicken-vandals, there was no chance of them ever going into the flower bed - they would be stripped bare in no time. They are now growing happily next to a couple of raspberry canes donated by a gardening friend.
Blackcurrant above and Blueberry below
Since I took this photo, the flowers have all turned into little blueberries, waiting for a bit of sun. I'm very much looking forwards to eating them for breakfast, as long a s the birds don't get them first ....
