Half term holidays have been a lovely distraction from the kitchen garden and blog, we’ve had a great week meeting up with friends and family. On the whole the weathers been great and the children have enjoyed long lazy days in the garden.
I have managed to install a table and chair in the kitchen garden so I can sit and sip tea. This is proving a little dangerous as every time I sit, I come up with new ideas and plans to compete and guzump those already on the long list. I have to keep telling myself that I only started working on this garden in January, and only so much can be achieved in the first year.
A place to sip tea and ponder!
We’ve started cropping our mini cucumbers. They’re a fine example of why it really is worth ‘growing your own’, they have a delicious sweet moreish flavour, very different to the watery tasting cucumbers from the supermarket. The children devour them, to the extent that I’ve still not taken a photograph of one, so I have a picture of our mini cucumber ‘Cucino’ plant in the greenhouse. Another valuable cut and come again crop. Keep picking or they’ll think they’ve done their job for the year and stop producing fruit.
Mini Cucumber Cucino Plant – a great reason the ‘grow your own’
One last picture, the cow parsley has formed its own beautiful hedge around the bottom of the garden.
