As I've mentioned before we're a little behind everyone else, even though we started really early this year, we had a massive slug problem due to the floods and wet start to this year. For the first time ever we've had to resort to using slug pellets, not ideal, but it's so disheartening to lovingly grow your seeds into strong seedlings, prepare the ground and then plant them out, then to arrive the next day and find everything had been eaten, week's of hard work amounting to nothing.
But as you can see from the pictures things are really coming along now.
These are my flower beds which are a first for us, but we wanted to attract Bee's, Butterflies and other insects, so far we've seen lots of Bee's and a few Butterflies, g0lad to be doing our bit to help the local wildlife.
Here's our Potatoes, Rhubarb and Cucumbers, we've had several harvests of Rhubarb already this year, the cucumbers have just started to flower even though they're still pretty tiny.
Next on our virtual tour are my Cherry Tomatoes, we have larger ones growing in the greenhouse, more Sweet Peas, Sweeetcorn and behind that is my Red Onions, one or two of them are huge already.
Himself had just been round with the lawn mower, the grass was pretty long because of not being able to get there since my knee operation for a couple of weeks, but it's all nice and tidy again now, just the way I like it.
I'm linking this post to Badger Boo's Smile it's the Weekend, Welcome to the Weekend Blog Hop, and How Does Your Garden Grow.
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I love sweet peas too - my mother's favourite. I always include a small patch of the beauties somewhere in the garden. Your veggie patch looks fab - my sweet corn is almost as high as an elephant's eye :-)
ReplyDeleteLovely looking veg patch and MUCH tidier than mine!! Hope it brings you in lots of great fruit and veggies.
ReplyDeleteThat all looks fantastic. Must have been hard to lose some plants, but at least they're all growing nicely now. The sweet peas are beautiful, we always used to have them in my mum's garden.
ReplyDeleteI love sweet peas - the colours are fantasitic. x
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant looking allotment. I love sweetpeas
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Beautiful photos, love the sweet peas the colours are really stunning :) #mysundayphoto
ReplyDeleteIt looks brilliant, Dawn, and so neat and tidy - well done to you and Himself. Good to attract the Bs' - funnily enough haven't seen many butterflies around this year. Your Sweet Pea pic is lovely - such pretty flowers and the perfume is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI only found out about them recently and I fell in love with them since! They are just so pretty and you are right about the jam jars. They are so humble and pretty! #mysundayphoto
ReplyDeleteSweet peas are my favourite, that smell gets me every time. I've enjoyed finding wild ones this year too. Your allotment is looking great - so neat too! Thanks for joining in - and apologies it's taken me a while to comment and share but I've been away x
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