The garden July 2011

There's always great excitement whenever something new happens in the garden, new shoots, flowering, or fruiting! Our first attempt of growing some fruit and veg was last year, since then we've improved somewhat. Although it sometimes does feel we're eating slug leftovers. :)

We had some lovely photos of the first seedlings from April, but all those are unfortunately lost. So here's how they look now:

Broccoli
For those who didn't know (we certainly didn't!), the broccoli florets are young flower buds. On the left, broccoli ready for harvest (so much smaller that 'supermarket' broccoli!), on the right, broccoli we've left in for too long with opening flowers. This is actually really easy to grow and the harvest is apparently better when seeds are planted in mid to late summer for an autumn crop.

TomatoesThese are so worth growing! They easily grow in growing bags or large pots, and the taste is heavenly compared to store-bought tomatoes. Ours are just maturing now:

CucumbersAnother easy-to-grow one! We've planted ours in a large pot and installed some canes for them to climb on, they're doing well and started producing fruit!

Other things growing well in the garden are the salad lettuce (yum!), carrots, beetroot:

And, finally, herbs!! Here are our two pots so far, one full of mint and the second one with parsley, sage, oregano, and rosemary.