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Found and lost

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This morning we wandered around the garden with the watering can and spotted these carrot flowers from plants that were sown in a large pot (found down the road with a “please take me” note on it) up near the house. They’ve got strange old graphic type flowers. Architectual flowers for a Lldl budget?

We then found a sprig of lemon thyme growing out of a strawberry terracotta planter (also found on a wall to be thrown out). We did have a bigger plant in one of the beds but it just didn’t make it through the winter this year but this spindly thing did! Lemon thyme works well on roast chicken and we’ll be feeding this plant with comfrey liquid) to see if we can make it grow more as we have culinary plans for it.

And while watering the wild bit at the bottom of the garden, we found the old slow cooker container that is now a micro-wild pond and also an overflow for plants that have been thinned out from the big pond. There’s some water mint, hornwart and even a water lilly and the actual container isn’t even that big.

Enjoy this great weather and as the late great Joe Maiden used to say, it’s better to water early in the morning then the evening. Watering in the evening only invites the slugs and snails and you don’t want that.

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Pictures of lily (and wood)

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A big shout out to all of our music/gardening friends from around the world! Thanks to Justin Patrick Moore in Cincinnati for an update of his Hugelkultur bed (above). It’s certainly looking great!

A few months ago it started off as the below (mentioned in the post here) and now has been filled with straw, soil, and underneath that, layers of compost and leaves and below that waste wood. It certainly looks like the plants like it! It may be worth having a go. Great stuff Justin! More on the practice of Hugelkultur here.

And thanks to our other good friend Gerry Hectic for sending a pic of his healthy looking pond. Is that watermint alongside that great lily Gerry? Brilliant!

Do send us pics of how you’re getting on with the garden this summer, we’re well up for receiving them!

It’s alright this gardening lark, innit?

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A mad day to say the least. The weather was first rate and conditions that inspired a day of gardening and then later, chilling in the back garden. My petrol mower was chugging away at 11am with no complaints (the guy across the road had his going at the ungodly hour of 9am on a Sunday morning without the police being called, the power of sunshine eh?)

Today I dug up the spuds that started off in the home-made cold frame which were later served up for dinner. Not as many for the two plants as I thought (earlies aren’t supposed to be massive harvesters) but enough roast spuds for a sunday dinner for a family of four. Perhaps I was expecting too much, but quality far out-weighed the quantity. Comments on the produce from the family were along the lines of “these potatoes taste like real potatoes”, too right! There’s still the rest of the bag of seed potatoes-worth of plants to go, so there’s a good few more roasters to enjoy.

There’s even a second flower on the water lilly in the pond, and for the last couple of years we’ve been cursing the bloke in Lewisham’s premier pet shop as all we’ve got is the odd leaf or two. Shame! The above pic shows the water lily that cost us a fiver about 2 years ago, a few oxygenating pond plants I got off ebay for about £3 which is spreading like wildfire and two of the goldfish of the 13 my wife got for the price as 11 (£7ish) at the Lewisham pet shop after she listened intently to the bloke chat on about his own pond. Bargain!