DJ and I enlisted the help of my dear mother and her partner Paul quite a few weeks ago to help us build a couple of no dig vegetable garden beds. I'm fairly excited about the progress of the plants so far. In the past week or so, the lettuce seeds have all turned into seedlings - ditto with the radishes AND the potatoes have started putting their little sprouts up! So green and tasty looking! I often find myself standing next to the gardens with my hands on my hips, a sprig of parsley in my mouth, ginning, and nodding to myself.
It's a good life.
This is one of the broccoli plants - we have six of them and they've been the biggest growers so far. Exciting!
Here' some celery. I want the celery to grow faster! It was planted at the same time as the broccoli but just isn't taking off as much as I want them too!
Chives!
One of two newly planted courgette plants. Delicious!
Here we have two varieties of parsley - fancy/curly and italian. I like chewing their leaves. Num num num...
MINT! So lush. Apparently I need to put it in a bucket so it can't escape and wreak havoc all over the garden.
Pizza Thyme - the first wee plant died from neglect because I bought it well before we had a garden to put it into... and so I had to get a new one.
Baby Radishes! Cute! They've doubled their leaves since I took these in the weekend!
Rhubarb. I think our second plant may have died. Sigh.
2 comments:
"I often find myself standing next to the gardens with my hands on my hips, a sprig of parsley in my mouth, ginning, and nodding to myself."
Indeed, ginning in the spring sun contemplating the garden sounds wonderful!
Haha, yes well, I meant to say grinning, but ginning - though it makes me sounds like a drunky - is also an acceptable substitute...
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