Saturday 1 December 2012

Wandering the estate this morning....

A slow amble around our garden today revealed just how well our plants are going.
Our philosophy is simple. If you can't eat it, don't grow it; if you need to mollycoddle it, get rid of it; if it's not prolific; reconsider it.
Here are pics of some of the plants we have growing:

*** I'm doing this on my phone & haven't yet discovered how to either embed or label my photos, so my apologies.

- Sugar snap peas
- Feijoa flower buds -> fruit
- Blackcurrants
- Figs, Black Genoa var.
- Apples
- Pyrethrum, under apples
- Blackcurrant cuttings, Christmas gifts
- Asparagus, 4-5 stalks/day, 6 weeks






- Egyptian walking onions
- Peruvian ground apples
- Oka, New Zealand yams
- Curry bush
- Chilean guava
- Persimmon flowers
- Lemons
- Herbs
- Good ol' Broadies
- Rosemary (I once worked with a lady called Rosemary Lamb, she was a lovely person)
- Jerusalem Artichokes : these shade the wall & grew from 5 corms that Eileen gave me. If the world had more like her it'd be a far better place.