After a week of hot weather the great British weather has not disappointed and the drizzle has rolled in again, just in time for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend celebrations. While the weather may not be conducive to the picnics, walks and outdoor activities we had planned, it is great for the garden which is literally exploding into colour before our eyes. Last year I bought lots of chives for their culinary uses as well as their lovely purple flowers. Last year we never so much as got a flower head off them (although we ate loads of the onion-y flavoured stems with new potatoes and butter) but this year they are full of flowers and are attracting the bees in droves.
Also doing well are the strawberries which are growing well, unlike the peas and courgettes which have been attacked by various little beasts and have been reduced to little stumps in the ground.
At least it doesn’t rain in the potting shed, which is where we will likely be headed later on today to do a second sowing.
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I have problems with my snap peas getting eaten by little critters, too! The seeds would get eaten the same day I planted them – little tunnels going all through my rows. I came up with a plan – I made small wire “cages” to put over my snap peas. Hopefully the wire is large enough for the plants to grow up through the mesh. It can be so disappointing to see all the hard work disappear overnight! Good luck with your second sowing!
I can only hope. I have down directly in the ground and grown some on in the potting shed and all have been eaten. Hope yours fair better than mine!
Lovely! Isn’t there a song, “In an English Country Garden?”
There is indeed a song of that name! Thanks for your comment – do come back.
Nice shots! Sort of unrelated, but when you chop the chives, do new stems spring up?
I hope the weather for the rest of your weekend clears up!
Hello, thanks for your comment. Yes, as the chives get cut they grow back. Those in the picture were cut down to quite small clumps at the beginning of the spring, now they are taking over!
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