Lessons Mum has learned this season.

~ sweetpeas are a full time job!
~ do not plant sweetpeas with eating peas in the same bed (until I'm experienced enough to tell the difference)
~ spring onions can be transplanted when they are coming into flower and little ones will resprout from the base
~ ducks adore fresh lettuce (note to self: seal off the raised beds)
~ chicken compost is great but let it "rot" more before using; then *I* get to choose where tomato plants grow
~ pot plants need watering, frequently, to survive
~ day lillies do not flower the year after they have been transplanted
~ electric hedge trimmers are f.u.n.
~ homegrown dwarf beans are delicious

Seems I've learned a bit about this gardening lark

 

A very good list for starters Mum,

 

well done Mum
it's fun to learn each year

 

The great thing about gardening....... you NEVER stop learning!!

 

I've got carrots!!!
Took a chance and pulled and there they were!!! My first ever carrots

 

I love the taste of fresh carrots!

 

Yay!! Mum!! Never grown them but I wish you bon appetit,
Jenny

 

Thank you both Can't believe just how delighted and pleased with myself I feel
So, Sunday I shall cook a roast and serve *my* carrots and *my* dwarf beans on the side. I even have a few teeny cherry tomatoes I could roast (but, I can't take credit for those; they planted themselves )

 

And from today's shopping trip in my garden ....

All the tomatoes are volunteer tomatoes

 

Thank you, shiney
No, you're right there; I was very surprised to keep hearing of the massive slug problems this year ... just not in my garden

 

Lovely "garden harvest " photo mum . What beans are you growing there , they look tasty. I grew french beans , first time this year - Shiney guided all us bean newbies through to a very succesful and yummy crop

 

Dwarf beans, Harry and it's my first time at growing them Actually, the very real celebration relating to these beans is this:
Mr Mum grew up thinking there were only two vegetables in this world; peas and carrots. Worse they "grew" in tins and their foliage was a paper wrapper. Sadly, we didn't meet until he was "tinned veg" institutionalised and the stubborn beggar could *not* be persuaded otherwise.
I steamed some of my home grown dwarfies and put them on his plate (alongside the cooked rabbit I'd culled and butchered myself: another 1st!) and ... *drumroll, please* .... he ATE them ... ALL of them

So yes, they are mighty tasty indeed

 

Yay mum,
your today's star
Jenny

 

Mum, excuse me while I diversify............if you're called Mum shouldn't Mr. Mum be called Dad.