Yes indeed, June is almost over, and I don't yet feel as though summer has started ! It's just not warm enough for me. I really hope the temps pick up soon. We've also had some awful winds during this last week.
The garden is coming along - everything is growing well, and I'm quite pleased so far. Of course, I've overplanted - as usual. But I can always thin things out if it gets too crowded. I'm going to insert some random photos here and there as I type.
The herbs are doing very well - they have all come up again, and I'm using them in the kitchen. Yummy. Lemon thyme is one of my favourites.
The courgettes are doing well - in fact, the photo below is from last week. I've potted them on since then into individual (larger) pots. The hot peppers are also growing away, and are almost ready to pot on too. And I've succumbed, and planted tomatoes - tumbling toms and lettuce. Lettuce hope I haven't left it too late. It's killing me not to have a huge veg garden. I am a veggie gardener at heart, and I would gladly give up all the flower growing if I could have a decent veg garden. But I know the owner of this house would NOT be pleased if we dug the little back garden up and turned it over to veg. *sigh*. I had a lot of success with the few veg I grew last year - we were eating salads right into the autumn. Thankfully, I'm a very patient person, and I know my time (and house) will come ! Maybe next year or the year after. House prices are starting to come down slowly. We wait.
The garden is ablaze with colour at the moment. I'm loving it.
Hanging baskets are doing what hanging baskets do !
I was a bit late with a lot of seeds that I had planned to plant in March/April. Early spring just got away from me. I've sowed the seeds anyway, and they are all coming up. Let's hope we have a mild autumn then I'll get to enjoy the blooms.
I got a few new roses, as a present from my lovely Mother ! I'll show them in another post. I'm thrilled with them - they're my new babies, and they are in for a lot of pampering.
So...that's June in a nutshell. I'm really enjoying my little patch - I'm out there fiddling for at least an hour or two every day. Hubby wonders what I can find to do every day. But we know that a gardener's work is never done, is it ? And I can always rearrange the pot plants.
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