Showing posts with label organic vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic vegetables. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

How does your garden grow - July

This months How Does Your Garden Grow post is all about the walled garden here at my home. Since late may we have been having a bumper crop of cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes and the like.  It all tastes so much better when it is grown organically and of course the fact that I don't actually have to tend to it is a big plus point from my point of view.  I get to do the best bit - eat it!








Linking up with Annie over at Manneskjur.
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Pinks & Greens of my Garden

It has been a while since I have joined in with Annie's great linky. Earlier this week when the rain had given way I really enjoyed getting out in the garden and seeing how things were growing. You might know I live on a big estate so before you get excited, these are not actually my gardens but the 220 acres I live in.

I did have a chat with the gardener and confirm that we would love a vegetable plot this year though, so soon enough I can start to share some photos of our very own (tended by us) garden plot, which will be cool.

This is the view from my front door, we have a massive courtyard for the kids to play in and I adore sitting on those benches and listening to the bird song when the weather is nice.


As for what is growing right now, there is an awful lot of pink and green going on here, it is truly beautiful -




I think even moss can you look pretty too...






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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

The beauty of the Kitchen Garden

I often see the posts linked up with Mammasaurus linky 'how does your garden grow?' and normally I'm left in awe of the great things that people are doing with their outdoor space. Since moving we have spent an immense amount of time outside but we no longer have a garden we have to tend. We now have 220 acres that someone else tends and within that we have a hedged private garden we can use but again it is lawn mown for us. It is a bit of a dream come true to be honest, after all who likes to mow the lawn?

I have found I've missed growing my veggies though and tending my flowers. I think next year I'll be taking a patch in the staff garden and doing some growing, for now I have been enjoying looking at the fruits of other peoples labour.

The pictures below show the kitchen gardens that are tended by the grounds team here. The vegetables get used in the main conference centre and the apples are juiced to make apple juice which is sold here. Can you spot what is being grown at the moment?






and we have the dahlias and sweet peas in the summer too to allow for the insects and cross pollination to occur.





and here are a couple of the plots ready for the next batch of planting and you can see my house in the background.

I bet you can see why I like it here so much!

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