Tag: failures

Garden bargains galore

The growing season is well underway and I have had some successes and some spectacular failures, including my sweetpeas which in fact turned out to be just peas, and the courgettes that just failed to grow.

  • The French beans are giving a continuous harvest
  • Young Borlotti beans, you can just see the start of the distinctive markings
  • No idea what the variety of these apples are, can’t wait to try them
  • The Munchkin pumpkin starting to scramble up the arch
  • The bean arch is looking healthy
  • baby Butternut squash
  • It’s twins!
  • the very beginnings of sprouts, they will hopefully be ready for our Christmas dinner
  • The bean arch
  • Pumpkin arch
  • I have corn cobs!
  • baby Munchkin pumpkin

I also paid a visit to Poundland and got some great garden bargains, some practical but mostly decorative items, but as I have mentioned before, I want my plot to be an attractive space as well as a productive one.

  • Leaf scoops, will be so useful in the Autumn
  • String dispenser
  • cute little tin mug
  • pretty little planters
  • Little wooden tray, which I painted
  • key thermometer, I have put this on the shed
  • This milk churn planter came from Home Bargains and cost a princely £6.99

I was super pleased with my haul, especially when everything is just a pound each, apart from the milk churn, but even that was a bargain!

The flowers and wildlife are rife on the plot at the moment, and I love seeing the beautiful colours dotted here and there.

  • Painted lady butterflies are everywhere at the moment
  • Gladioli that I had forgotten I had planted
  • Scabiosa seed head, I am in love with this
  • Beautiful cornflowers
  • Nasturtium “ladybird”
  • This is my favourite of the pelargoniums in front of my shed, I love the unusual markings on the petals
  • one of the three roses I have dotted around the plot

One of my little projects was to utilise a large roof slate that I had been gifted, so I used my acrylic paint pens and made an apt sign for the plot

And finally before I bid you toodle pip, I will leave you with the results of wearing my sandals to the plot. Please try to tear your eyes away from my funny little toes (I was born with them like that) and behold the glory of my bad tan! spectacular isn’t it?

Until next time, toodle pip for now.

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