The garden has changed with the onset of summer. In the vegetable garden lettuce, spinach, chard and peas are being harvested. The onions are starting to swell and will soon be ready to harvest.
It has been interesting to watch the different tomato varieties grow and ripen at different rates. First came the lovely red cherries, small and sweet. Next the much larger tigerella with their distinctive stripes. And now the San Marzano – an Italian plum variety. Similarly with the chilli plants the Apache are flowering freely and producing many fruits whilst the Tabasco develop at a much slower pace and have just come into bud.
The sunflowers have brought joy to the patio area.
The old herb garden is also evolving slowly. The first blackcurrants on the bush, sweat peas, zinnias and sweet Williams starting to bloom.
There also has been a very welcome crop of redcurrants from three bushes I cut back during the winter.
A strange surprise was what I think are berries on the olive.
So now I await the Japanese anemones to come into bloom. A little wild under the apple tree this year.
The strawberry plants produced and are still producing strawberries. The little runners have successfully rooted, so mor strawberries next year.
And finally the yellow courgette ‘Firenze’ is starting to flower and produce fruits.
A Strines Garden 