Garden wonder

Last year my veg growing was abnormally sucessfull (for me).

I put it down to great growing weather.

This year my veg growing has surpassed itself again.

Not in volume - there's only two of us,

But in quality and consistency.

For a first attempt at onions, you can't argue with these.

And for a first attempt at cabbage, this is a healthy looking row.

The sweet potato patch is a riot of green:

The standard potatoes are bigger than last year

And chillies, marrows, tomatoes and sweet bell peppers are coming along nicely.

Courgettes, water melon, leeks, carrots and cucumbers have also been productive.

I think we must be exceedingly lucky in our soil.

The birds have discovered the raseberries, so although the plants are bigger and better, I'm not getting any more than before. And with tha late frost getting the plums, I'm going to have to do without plum and raseberry jam this year. But I've made a date with a huge bush of blackberries up the hill.

Sweet corn never put in an appearance, which will be disappointing for the chickens (who love them)

But hopefully they will be mollified by the insanity of the sunflower patch.

Talking if chicken food, our neighbour gave us a bucket of corn. What do you think? Feed it to the chickens now or grow it next year for never ending chicken food?

Want to know how mulching worked out? Watch this space.....

Enjoy your week.