Did you know, other than spending long hours dreaming over sweet pea’s, cucumbers and tomatoes, I also make very good use of my hands by making things like these:

and these:

Pretty huh?

Well if you’re interested in checking out what else I make in my spare time, why not check out my other blog.

Enjoy!

I’m so sorry I’ve not posted an update in a while, I’ve just been super busy what with finally getting the little one into school and buying lots of new pretty stuff for the house.

Oh and not forgetting to mention, my birthday pressie arrived yesterday, any guesses what it could be??

In such little time my back garden space has changed from  this:

To this:

There’s still a heck of a way to go yet, things need moving out of the garden and there’s still a lot of weeding to do… But I’m getting there, slowly.  We should have our new garden furniture soon-ish, so then I’ll be able to enjoy the garden and have people come join me outside

Today I’ve been potting on things that should really be going straight into the ground.  But with our front garden space still looking like a building site (only with a little more grass), I fear that if I start working on the front too I’ll be taking on a lot more than I can deal with at the moment.  So I’m focusing on getting the back garden space a little more tidier first.  Hopefully everything that I’ve potted on today will last a few more weeks before going into the ground.  Monty was my garden space buddy for the day, lounging around in an unfinished raised bed….

That pic makes me cringe.   The pigeon shed is such an eyesore!  It’s not our pigeon shed though, it’s our landlords.  The house we’ve moved into was originally his home and he’s very kindly rented it to us at a massively reduced rate (mates rates, as he knows my Mum ), so we have to live with the pigeon shed view until he is able to move it to his new place…. Either that or finish off our fencing so we’re not sharing the garden space with his newly built house next door.

Anyway, the house next door and the pigeon shed pics I shall save for another time.

I admit I got a little ahead of myself when I announced I was going to make myself some raised beds out of pallets.  What a bloody chore that would have been, plus I really couldn’t be bothered with trying to get the endless amount of nails out of the wood.  So, I cheated and bought some.

This one above is the home to some broccoli, cauliflower, parsnips, turnips, and my pea’s.  I also tried (for the very first time ever) at sowing seeds outdoors and not in a propagator.  I sowed a line of carrots.  Fingers crossed!

Before I start waffling on about what we’ve been up to in the garden space today, I thought you might all like to check out the gorgeous flower that has just appeared on one of my pumpkin plants.

This Pumpkin was lovingly grown from seed by Lucy.  Isn’t it beautiful?

In other places around the garden space, me and Jessica cleared out the weed and grass and made our Sunflower bed.  We’ve planted out 5 Sunflowers so far, another 5 will follow in the other bed tomorrow.

Now, after the Sunflowers are in I’m thinking of putting up some trellis type fence behind the sunflowers (maybe sitting on the brick level) as a sort of screen.  But I’m wondering what type of climber I could plant behind the Sunflowers that would grow up the trellis, but obviously not strangle the sunflowers and be a beautiful backdrop?!…. Oh how I wish I knew more about flowers!

Tonight I cooked lasagne for tea and decided to test out the herbs, rocket salad and radish from the Garden Space and I have to say, it was very tasty!

Mum came round last night to empty her compost caddy into our bin and because I’ve been away for a few days I’ve not been adding to it or monitoring it’s progress.  To be fair it has looked like the same pile of potato peelings, banana skins, ripped tea bags, grass cuttings and balls of newspaper for a few weeks now.  You can imagine how shocked I was to find this!

As you can see in the pic I’ve thrown in a few extra scrumpled pieces of newspaper.  But overall I think I’m quite pleased with the way it’s all breaking down.  The smell is lovely and sweet.  Hard to explain, considering it’s rotting!

I just hope we get some half decent compost at the end.

I forgot to post a pic up yesterday of my herb pot, so I’ve just nipped out into the Garden Space and gone a little snap happy.

This was taken on our last full day at Bognor Regis.  Almost makes me wanna cry, I mean look at it!  Clear blue water and bright blue sky.  Who’d have thought we were still in the UK?  Absolutely beautiful!

It was such a shame to arrive at Liverpool Lime Street yesterday evening to be greeted to grey skies and deep puddles   But hey ho, we’re home and I’m pleased to tell you that all my greens survived my few days away.  Mum did well keeping everything watered, cool and living.  Everything has certainly changed a lot since Monday.  I now have flowers on my pea’s, my herb pot has actually started looking like herbs!  And my pumpkins are starting to flower.

Enough of the babble…. Here are a few pics I took this morning:

….and when the weather is good, it’s Evil!

Such intense heat and sunshine is not doing my wilting veggies any good.  The temperature inside the greenhouse is blistering.  I can only stand in there for a few minutes, without wanting to pass out!  So, because I go away on holiday tomorrow morning (I’m leaving my Mum in charge of the garden space… Eeek!) I’ve covered the greenhouse with the weeding (floor) material, as it’s the only thing I had to hand at the time.  But it’s done the trick and the temp has dropped a little in the greenhouse.  I think I can manage an extra 4 minutes without wanting to pass out.

Everything that normally lives in the greenhouse is now sitting on my lawn, still baking.  I used the hose (fine spray) to try and perk them up a little, seems to have worked.

Anyway, this might be my last post here until next Friday…. That is unless I pay to have the internet whilst on holiday.  We’ll see.

So from me to you, enjoy the sunshine.  Make sure you protect those veggies and I’ll see you all in a few days!

Yesterday we picked a few of our strawberries.  Mum is really surprised that the size of them, considering when she gave them to us the flowers (fruit) forming was so tiny.  Looks like a little bit of research did them some good.  Who know’s maybe next year they’ll give bigger fruit.

Everything else is looking as green as ever in the garden space and you can check out some recent pics out here.

We go on Holiday on Monday so the past few days have been spent panic buying and trying to pack.  Today is pretty much the same.  The weather is totally gorgeous at the moment and I really don’t want to have to shop…. Why can’t I just stay in the garden?!

Ho hum!