Finished behind the goat shed.

It shouldn't disappear in foliage now.

Homegrown willows

Amazing. Just by putting the branches pruned from the willows into the ditch we get more willows. They root amazingly easily, even large branches. More trees for the centre hedge.

Progress behind the goat shed

More food!

A beautiful summer's day..... Ideal for paddling.

The pond was due for a clear out as the oxygenating plants were taking over. It has now been stripped out and the self sown seedlings from the water plants have been transplanted down to the stream at the bottom.






I have put all the vegetation on the empty veg bed - if seaweed was good for Aunt Margaret's vegetables then pondweed is good enough for mine!


The plant in the middle of the pond has looked splendid his year and now it has started to flower.

Cilycwm Show 2012

A wet day!!!! But the show must go on.
Kate was a Judge for the Fancy Dress Pony competition....

  A winner.....

and they were kind enough to award me a Second Prize for a Birch Burr bowl and two Third prizes for a photo competition.

So proud.......

View from the gardeners seat.

Onion strings.

Harvesting again.

Progress on the bracken field.

Now I just have to keep it mown.

We have been away for a few days...

We went over the hills for a trip to test out the van prior to our next trip. Photos available at
http://travelsinrosiemay.blogspot.co.uk/
Back to more rain....

More harvesting!

But there were caterpillars in the broccoli.

A good crop of courgettes.

I am just glad I didn't plant them too close together.

First peacock this year.

And this is how much it has rained.

Nasturtiums are taking over the world!

I didn't plant any this year! These are self-sown.

Behind the bike shed.

Well, not the bike shed but the goat shed. It has become the place where "things that might be useful one day" are stored. Because there is no ground cover it is becoming a wilderness so it is getting a clean up and membrane is going down.
But now I come to think of it the old bikes are stored in the chicken house so this is behind the bike shed. Where are those cigarettes?

Progress on the bracken field.

Rain, rain, go away, come again.......

next year sometime.
Today's harvest.

Clearing the bracken field.

The bracken field reverted to bracken this summer and so it is a strimmer job to get it back to grass again. Ultimately it will be an orchard with the sand path winding through it down to a bridge. Eventually.

Boring......

Today I have been cutting hedges which is far too boring to take a photo of. So here is a photo of today's harvest.


And also a picture of an herbaceous clematis ( I think it is Cote d'Azur) which I moved from the Rodborough garden and had been languishing in a tub until this spring. And now it is flowering with possibly the best blue flower in the garden.





(what lousy photos from the iTouch. I must get a better camera. )

Green amongst the gold!

You can see where the path through the goose field has been mown regularly!!

Grass cutting.

The goose field hasn't been cut for months - the May holiday upset the mowing schedules and it hasn't been done since.





Good crop of onions.


And the second row of potatoes have been lifted.


And the sun shone all day!

A damp day but things got done.

The second gate has gone from the middle fence so that we can have a continuous hedge.


And the gardeners bench has had some repairs and a coat of timber treatment.

I forgot these

We had our first leeks from the garden the other day......


not quite up to Waitrose standard yet.

A new visitor

A hare appeared in the garden this morning. Sadly it didn't stay long enough to be photographed but we hope it will reappear.
Today we are busy in the kitchen - pickled onions, pickled beetroot and beetroot chutney.

Catch up photos.

It has been rather wet....... So not much has been done outside.



Ten home-grown willows have been planted on the centre fence to add some middle-ground interest. They will be inter-planted with shrubs to make a mixed colour low hedge.



The meadow-sweet is in full bloom now and scenting the air.



and the second planting of courgettes and butternut squash have finally started to bear fruit - if a vegetable can bear fruit that is!



I worried that is courgette was looking very poorly till I remembered that I had sown some yellow courgette seeds!