In The Garden...

MrEH was pottering about outside today while I was cooking up a big pan of curry, when he suddenly called me to come outside, he had something to show me...when I got out there he pointed out these to me...

Those are the Gooseberry bushes we planted last year, to replace the previous spiky hedge that the builders managed to kill when they made an appalling job of the major works on the flats a few years ago. The spiky hedge was useful because being on the ground floor, it's helpful to have a physical barrier in front of our windows, so we wanted to replace it, but with something both spiky AND edible - Gooseberries seemed to fit the bill perfectly! We're extremely impressed that they are looking like giving us fruit this year though - clearly they are happy little Gooseberry bushes!

Also going brilliantly, and just in front of the Gooseberries....

...tatties! We've got that row there, a hessian sack planted up with a few more, and another row, somewhere else, which could best be described as "Guerrilla gardening" as technically we probably shouldn't actually be growing stuff there. Oh well. they're growing anyway so presumably they don't have an issue with being potato-shaped squatters.

Now this next shot shows a bit of an unexpected triumph...look...

 ...what you see there is the currant bush that we planted about 6 years ago. It was so long ago that we've actually forgotten what sort it is - we think it might be a Whitecurrant, but as until now it's never fruited, we can't be certain of this. Until last year it barely even got around to growing leaves - then suddenly, in the middle of last year, it doubled in height and started looking distinctly perky and interested in life. A month ago flowers appeared, and now it's actually forming fruit.We are ludicrously excited about this!

Finally, a rather shorter-term project. The salad leaves....

...these were only sown last week, and are already coming on nicely. Added to that there are signs of life in the bits in the mini-greenhouse. We don't actually know what is showing though as we never quite got around to labelling anything. (You'd think we'd learn? Thankfully it's not actually that important as everything we sowed is stuff we like to eat!)

So there you go - you can quite literally say that everything in the garden is indeed lovely!

Robyn