These are the rather sad potato plants-the slugs loved their leaves!
What I've learnt
- thankfulness that we do have supermarkets full of food.
- gardening is hard work. I'm sure that ours would have done better with more time spent weeding and removing slugs.
- some of the produce that didn't grow is for reasons beyond our control. The tomato plants needed more sun. The loss of the apple blossom was due to the weather.
- Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.
- Appreciation of the food that we do have from our garden-some potatoes, garlic, a few damsons, some rhubarb (this did well), a few blackcurrants from very young bushes and we hope to have some apples and a few wild blackberries.
How does your garden grow?
How do you make time for gardening?
We got plenty of lettuce, spring onion & beetroot this year. We will hopefully still get leeks and more of the above. Not a single tomato (we only do tumblers as we have no greenhouse). We need to harvest the blackcurrants and will have loads more Rhubarb. We had a little broccoli and a few potatoes. The disappointments were the peas and carrots, I think because of the weather. Not even a courgette! I planted some new raspberry bushes this year so I'm hopeful for a bumper crop next year. I find everyone is keen when it's the planting season - not so keen on weeding :-) Elaine W
ReplyDeleteElaine, it sounds that you have done well overall. We didn't have even one tomato, too. Presumably, they like more sun and less rain!
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