Early spring garden

May garden with the Aquilegia at their best

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Spring garden

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Lots of self seeded Hellebores to increase my collection ,and the Polyanthus and Pulmonaria which I divided up last year are putting on a good show.

  

February snow

I'd planned to go over to the allotment today for some clearing up and to continue to remodel the beds.However I woke up to find that a decent amount of snow had settled.Quite reassuring for this time of year given that it's the north of England.

The cold snap has been a bit of boon for bird life in the garden for as well as the usual fare , including more starlings than for many years, a Nuthatch visited yesterday, and this morning I've already sighted a Siskin and a magnificent Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Unfortunately no photos yet.

Late November garden and plot

Bright sunshine first thing today with signs of a slushy fall of snow last night.
My shrub planting in the back garden over the last couple of years has certainly added to the Autumn colours.

Over at the plot there's still quite a lot of veg to be had with the winter brassica now coming into season.At the moment it's sprouts and kale ,with white and purple broccoli to follow later on. I've been tidying up the beds one by one and have also added some more "no walk ,less dig" beds on the top half of the plot.As with the others which I added last year, the path widths are kept to an absolute minimum in order to have as much growing space as possible.I can just stand sideways between them in my welly boots to work the beds without trampling the ground.
My clay rich soil hates being walked on or dug too much ,and loosening it up gives me the chance to grow some decent root crops.Has certainly helped with the leeks and parsnips that I'm cropping at the moment ,and with the onions and carrots earlier on.Crop rotation planning is also easier.

Looking down the plot

New beds

Asparagus bed manured then top dressed with the spent compost from my cucumber grow bag.

Gooseberry autumn colour bonus

Looking up the plot

PSB,Cavolo Nero and Red Ursa Kale

Musselburgh leeks and Panorama parsnips

More PSB

Mid September plot and garden

A blog catch up on a wet late October morning.My allotment based posts seem to be dwindling to one for each season of the year as I've been off on my travels between times.No bad thing. Here's a link to the photo album.

One of the new shrub roses in my garden raised beds.Initially planted out in 2014 but then all moved earlier this year into the lower beds less overshadowed by the cliff face.

Over on the allotment it's the cooler weather crops that seem to have done best this year after the icy blast which lasted well into June.

Stur onions from sets

Flavor garlic

Inverno Italian leeks doing well over here too

Pride of place goes to the Rossa Lunga onions raised from seed.This is just the second part of a bumper crop.

Black Magic sunflowers self seeded then transplanted

Purple and White sprouting broccoli plants much more vigorous then last year's and pushing up the netting

The early potatoes grown at home in pots and on the plot were disappointing,except for this batch of Charlottes which I left in the ground over the summer.

A "patio" rose which has been in the garden raised beds since the move over from veg in 2012 and seems to be developing into a more substantial bush

 

Sudden snow on Sunday

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