(there are a few more photos of it, as well as plenty more of my garden, in my Flickr portfolio).
Well, I seem to have slipped a bit from my target of at least one blog post per week. I think it was a month ago today that I last got round to writing anything.
In the last couple of weeks, I've been quite busy out in my garden. Last year, when I first moved into my flat, I didn't do very much in the garden as I wanted a chance to see what had been planted there already. This year I fully intended to do a bit more, but didn't get round to it until after a visit to my parents where a brief stint of gardening one morning (about all that the weather would allow) obviously inspired me.
At first I concentrated on clearing away some of the dead or dying material and added a couple of new ornamental plants. My favourite of these is my new celosia plumosa, which you can see in this picture:
(there are a few more photos of it, as well as plenty
more of my
garden, in my Flickr portfolio).
Since then I've added a couple more herbs to my herb garden (basil and dill, although both have been badly attacked by slugs so I'm now trying out beer traps and other anti-slug devices) and started trying to grow a few vegetables. I've sown seeds for radish and rocket (both of which have now started to appear) as well as nasturtiums, carrots and French beans (all of which have yet to put in an appearance), and also planted a few garlic cloves and some Welsh onions.
After several days of fairly frenetic garden activity, I've just about used up all the space I have in the garden and come to the end of the major horticultural tasks for the moment. The next stage is probably harder, as it's now a matter of patience combined with vigilance to make sure the slugs don't eat everything and it all gets sufficient water.
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