Here are some more photos from our Gardening Group's gardens during lockdown. (Part One was
here.)
I'm loving picking the first salad and spinach crops of the year. Below is last night's salad 100% from our garden - baby spinach, red-veined sorrel, yellow beet, baby rainbow chard, salad burnet, rocket, marjoram, parsley and chives with their flowers:
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| Peas, runner beans and teeny spinach protected from birds and loving the dappled sunlight |
(You might be interested in the post on the Veg Protection Wars
here.)
Philippa is growing Veg for Victory over the Virus, turning part of the garden into a veg plot:
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| The chosen spot |
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| Nearly ready - looking good! |
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| Keeping a weather eye on cold nights... |
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| Raring to go in their new homes in the ground |
Maggie has an excellent trick which I've just stolen. (Thanks/sorry, Maggie!) She uses newspaper topped by grass cuttings to make weed-free paths between veg rows. Here, she's done it in her fruit cage.
Basically, you put newspaper or cardboard down, soak it and then spread grass clippings. After a while, it rots down, making a great mulch to deter weeds and provide a path. And at the end of the season you just let it rot in.
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| And here's one I started yesterday, between pea rows |
Diana's vicarage garden was going to be open to the public as part of the NGS scheme but of course that's all off. But I'm going to do a full feature on her glorious garden around the time it would have been open. Meanwhile, here's her wild garlic as an appetiser, delicious in tomato sandwiches.
Gardening Group members, keep your photos coming! We love to see what everyone's doing.
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