If only I could grow avocados here I’d be set. *looks wistful*
I’m trying to focus on things I like rather than the standard veg that most people grow. I love asparagus but it has a short season and it’s usually pretty expensive. Globe artichokes you usually only see already in jars of oil, hardly ever in the supermarket, occasionally in specialist veg shops.
And I would love an apple tree so I’m going to try my hand at that and hopefully get some apples.
The rest I am going to grow from seed, but I’m still deciding what varieties to get. Oh and I also got onions – red onions since that’s the ones I buy now.
And I bought 84 lavender plug plants which are going in around the “parterre” thing I made last summer.
Here comes the photo:
OK so this gravelly bit used to be just a big square of old gravel that was full of weeds, giant docks, dandelions, and a lot of the plastic underneath was ripped up. It never looked like there was enough gravel in it so I figured if I could set it out in a different layout and remove it from the corners and the middle, then there should be enough gravel for the inbetween parts. Turns out once it was all dug up and raked about, there was quite a lot of gravel there after all, so now I need to find somewhere to put the extra! Obviously you can see that it’s not finished as I’ve only managed to do two corners and the middle at this point.
Also in this pic you can see the layout of the raised veg beds though there is zero veg planted in there, and everything just looks so bare. This was taken last year before the dreaded snow arrived and stayed for three weeks over Christmas and before I got swine flu. You can see in the foreground the lovely rosemary bushes which didn’t make it through the winter. They were about 6 years old and I was really sorry to lose them.
