Things are finally growing! The chard is absolutely ready, so now I need to learn how to cook it. We’ve picked lots of strawberries, so jam is on the cards and the beans have also begun. I tidied up the wild section of the garden today, pulling out old poppies and cornflowers and letting light… Continue reading Today in the garden
Tag: Bees
Honeysuckle
Today is the first day I’ve smelt the honeysuckle. It always feels like a moment. As you can see, the bush is clearly a monster that needs to be dealt with and supported properly, but the bees always seem to love it regardless.
Wild flowers
The wildflowers seem to have sorted themselves out this year, with ox eye daisies, poppies and nigellas growing easily in the last metre of the garden. I allocated this metre to wildlife when I first started planning the veg patch, so that bees and other wildlife (including all those ladybirds I introduced) had somewhere lovely… Continue reading Wild flowers
A week in the garden: 11 July 2020
An update from Garden 101 this week, including flying ants, aphids, wild flowers and lots of berries