I was recently asked to supply a picture from this blog for a Canadian TV programme on messy gardens. The garden in question wasn't ours but it could have been. No money changed hands but they have kindly sent me a book which by chance arrived yesterday, The Outlander by Gil Adamson published by Anansi Press which I've been mad keen to read since I heard about it.
This time of year we just let most of the garden grow and have its own way, Bookhound mows a path through and around and we love the garden when it looks like this.
The vegetable garden has been allocated as set-aside since building my library created something akin to the Somme, but it's all settled down now and those daisies appeared from nowhere, a packet of seeds I sowed years ago which did nothing until the earth was shifted.
However order must rule in the vegetable garden and it does, Peter Rabbit style and how odd that surrounded by thousands of rabbits as we are, we have never seen a single one set foot in the garden, do they know a Gamekeeper lives here?
Currently leaf salad in profusion, but watch this space because this year we attempt brassicas for the very first time, purple sprouting broccoli, savoy cabbage and brussel sprouts.
How does your garden grow?
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