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Potatoes, Beans, Sweetcorn and A Birthday

Our veggie plot is coming on. The potatoes have been in for a while, First Earlies, and they have been earthed up several times already. The Dwarf French Beans were part of yesterday’s purchase as were the Sweetcorns. We used to grow Sweetcorn when we lived in Yorkshire. This is our first attempt here. I’ll be planting the Sugar Snap peas tomorrow, then the brassica bed and then everything will be in there. The edible trough has Pak Choi and Lettuce seeds beginning to come through. The Nasturtiums have yet to show. Yesterday’s 6 lettuces became 3 overnight! The slugs ate well.

William Shakespeare was born on this day, died on this day too. The Tempest is one of my favourite plays.

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 23, 2020 in environment, garden, nature, Photography, Postaday2020

Tags: dwarf French beans, raised beds, vegetable garden

Weekly Photo Challenge – On The Way

02 Jun

For one reason and another, we are not travelling anywhere this week so my journey was through the garden, on the way to see the horses in the field behind us. Join me as I wander up the garden, camera at the ready…….

Setting off up the garden

Into the Vegetable garden

From the vegetable garden, back towards the house

Some of the horses in the back field

For others in this week’s Photo Challenge, click here.

Just as reference, this is what the garden was like before we got to work!

The garden we inherited

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 2, 2015 in Beauty, environment, garden, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: vegetable garden

Poppy, Flower Salad and A Gift

01 Aug

1 Poppies have self-seeded throughout our vegetable garden and are quite glorious amongst the green.

Feathery poppy

2 The mixed red and green lettuces are this year untouched by slugs (so far!) and make a delicious salad along with some peppery nasturtiums and delicate white borage flowers.

Edible flower salad

3 Our neighbours have a glut of courgettes (as opposed to our pathetic specimens which are rotting on the stems) and a gift of gorgeous shiny green courgettes was brought round this afternoon. Just one became our supper, stuffed with rice, herbs, tomatoes and peas covered with cheese then with roasted pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, sesame seeds and slivers of almonds and served with the colourful salad – delicious. Thanks to Jim and djdfr for the recipe idea)

Stuffed courgettes

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 1, 2013 in baking, Beauty, flowers, Food, garden, growing, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: Edible flower salad, edible flowers, stuffed courgettes, vegetable garden, vegetarian supper, zucchini

Vegetable Garden, Family and Little Cousins

11 Jul

1 The beautiful Tabitha loved walking around all the paths in the vegetable garden though she had to make her way through, to her, a jungle of broad beans and rocket.

Investigating the vegetable garden

2 While the children played on the beach, the ‘grown-ups’ had a drink in the Blue Bar!

My lovely brother and sister-in-law

3 The cousins, who have never met before, are having a whale of a time! As I write, they are in the bath together and all I can hear is lovely laughter, shrieks of delight and splashing water!

Cousins in conversation

PS To all my lovely readers, followers and commenters – I will be very busy this week and I plan to post my blog but won’t have time to read or comment on all the interesting blogs I follow. Forgive me for a week! I will be back…….

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 11, 2012 in family, garden, Uncategorized

Tags: brother, cousins, laughter, lovely laughter, Postaday, sister-in-law, vegetable garden, whale of a time

The Vegetable Patch, Clematis and Mark Steel

02 May

1 The broad beans are up about 3″ and I’ve planted Limnanthus (Poached egg plant) between the rows to attract the hover flies which are supposed to eat the aphids! I planted the leeks today in their deep holes in one raised bed and had some left over so I’ve put them in the salad bed quite close together so we can have some baby leeks earlier than the others.

Leeks in their holes

2 All the time I was working in the vegetable garden, wafts of Clematis scent came drifting across – quite delightful.

Clematis

3 Mark Steek was in town tonight, well, in Falmouth. Both before and after the show, we walked along the sea front and heard the sea breaking on the shore. From 8 until 11.30, Mark Steel kept the packed theatre laughing!

It was so sad to smell the smoke and see the tortured remains of the Falmouth Beach Hotel which had such a terrible fire on 30th April. Fortunately all missing people have now been traced but so many lives and jobs will have been affected.