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<\/a><\/p>\nLast year’s strawberries are doing a lot better after Steve cut down the tree which was just to the right of this picture. Given enoughb weather variation, we should\u00a0be in for a feast this year. In the background you can see the “fence” I’ve built to protect them from being over-run by the squash plants I’ve just put in. Hopefully it will serve the dual purpose of stopping the strawberry gannets from crushing the squashes when feasting….<\/p>\n
…and here’s the wider view of same patch. I’ve put in all 8 squash plants the Chief Vegetable Architect has entrusted me with. If nothing else, they may suppress the weeds. Back right you can see the 4 blueberry bushes. I explained blueberries to Lily in a Charlie & the Chocolate Factory context, which I’m now thinking I may regret in the ling run when she refuses to eat them because she doesn’t want to inflate lijke a balloon. In the middle are 3 courgette plants. I’m wondering if they need a protective fence, too. Back left of the picture are the rhubarb plants which are guarded by 2 accidental potato plants. I may dig them up soon, as last year the potatoes took over & trashed the tomatoes.<\/p>\n Here’s the other “new” veggie patch.\u00a0Carrots (not very many of them, mind) back left, runner beans down the middle, sugar-snap peas back right. Tomatoes in the middle, french beans in the foreground, more strawberries right at the front (we *really* like strawberries) Various lettuces under the dome. This end of the carrots in front of the stick, you can see Lily’s sunflower, and her bean from nursery\u00a0is growing up the A frame.<\/p>\n These are my favourite flowers, shown with my favourite girl-named-after-a-flower who wouldn’t get out of the picture: We’ve cunningly managed to get them to grow somewhere where they can’t be seen from the house. Nice one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the latest on the vegetable patches: Last year’s strawberries are doing a lot better after Steve cut down the tree which was just to the right of this picture. Given enoughb weather variation, we should\u00a0be in for a feast … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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