How Does My Garden Grow..?

Hello :)

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Well, with mixed results mostly :/

 Tomato plants in various states of well-being!

The two we bought from the carboot sale have flourished in our grow bags and are even flowering now!

One of mine I grew from seed doing well underneath. and the rest of it less fortunate siblings which got left in the tray on the right- too tightly packed to do anything else, and I don't have the room to transplant them unfortunately.

 The a fore mentioned flowering tomato plants.

And here my pride and joy! The lettuce my have stopped developing and Mum's rocket may have gone to seed, but my pumpkins are coming on leaps and bounds- I never imagine they would grow so quickly!

A new addition to the family. Another carboot find, 

a lovely surprise to come home to last night, thanks Mum :)

(Don't think they'll be ready in time for the Wimbolden final though...)

And one of my many buzzy friends. Not my best camera work, but he deserves a mention- please don't forget to visit my tomato plants' flowers busy little bee!

Notes From The Garden

Hello.

all done up in make-do 'greenhouses'

Oh the 'bluebells' are out! Well these are actually grape Hyacinth I believe, but there certainly are bluebells about, out in the woods. There are some lovely ones on the way to my beloved's house, which I walk often, but however taken with their beauty, I'm sometimes just overcome with a sense of self-consciousness which prevents me from pausing a moment by the roadside, in full view of passing traffic in order to photograph them; and so you'll have to do with my imitations from the back garden. :)

 I recently bought some seeds to have a go at growing some of my own flowers and veg. I'm still living with my parents and so the garden is mostly the product of my mothers handiwork, but I wanted to have a go myself and so when, one day the other week, she was buying seeds, I decided I would take a few sachets too.

 We sowed a few at Jamie's house and they are already sprouting- tiny little green shoots, it's very exciting to see! I sowed some back here at home too, and the rest just went in today in some new compost.

 So we're waiting patiently for: Love-In-A-Mist, Forget-Me-Nots, Lettuce, Carrots, Pumpkins, Sunflowers, Tomatoes and mixed summer flowers.

I can't wait to see them start coming along!

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Otherwise, this week has been spent singing (Our teacher is really pleased with the progress we're making on Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'); playing at open mic (you can see the photos on Facebook!) and, yesterday, digging on the beach on a day out with the Cubs in the wind and the rain, before snuggling up back at home to watch the Eurovision.

 Well done Denmark :)