A few bits from last week

 

Common Blue

Chicken of the Woods

Poppy meadow

Buzzard over the garden

A garden frittata made with new potatoes, spinach, spring onions and herbs.....all from our garden that morning. Made by Simon for a late breakfast and it was delicious !!

A beautiful rainbow over Blacktoft Sands

Common Lizard

Common Tern

Four-spotted Chaser

A garden frog......we have many !

The Major Oak looking very say indeed, infact almost dead. I used to play inside that tree as a kid and that was many years ago !

Muntjac

Nightjar

Painted Lady, hundreds about just lately, we see them everywhere !

Small Copper

and a yellowhammer in the sun

Pasque Flowers, Lincs

We went to this Lincs reserve for Dingy Skippers, eventually finding many. The reserve looked stunning as usual and we were very lucky to find the last pasque flower that was hanging on. We didn't expect to see any as their flowering period had long passed. Lucky us !!

Dingy Skippers galore !

Seeding heads of the pasque flower

A pasque flower, the rest having long finished. Simon spotted this and what a find !!

Pixi cat x

 

She loves us to be in the garden when it's sunny and is constantly with us helping with the weeding.....but not keen at all on the watering !

Spark out after a rubbing of cat nip that we grow in the greenhouse especially for her x

She is beautiful and we love her to bits xx

Our garden

 

A lovely rose flowering - a present for Mother's Day from our Tom

None of our planters and tubs are flowering yet but they are already filling out and starting to look spectacular

Courgettes growing away, looking forward to eating these x

A bed of sweetcorn - this has been a bugger to grow this year. We start all the veg off in a propogator but most has struggled. The soil is warm but the air temperature in our house is far from warm !

Onions - they will keep us going for the year. Infact we haven't eaten all last years yet, they are hanging in net bags in the shed

Beans of varying heights and colours - will be delicous

Lots of tomatoes still in the cold frame. We did oversow this year, by a lot to be honest. All the neighbours have had some but we still have some left

Shallots (never grown before) doing exceptionally well, spinach and beetroot. I have mastered the recipe for creamed spinach, good job we like it as we seem to eat it 4 times a week !!

Peppers, cucumbers and a bed of spuds behind. All doing well. The spuds are now ready for harvest and we have them every day. They are, without doubt, the best in the world !

Chillis in the greenhouse now with fruits on

Tomatoes growing away. Simon has now started to prune them, now that is a task I hate doing but has to be done along with clipping them up. Won't be moaning when we are eating freshly picked tomatoes on toast every morning x

These are just a few planters from the back garden. We recon we have well over 100 !  Will show you the front later

And then we have the daily harvest of new potatoes !

Flipping delicious with a knob of butter and sea salt xx

Nothing in the world beats this !

One hundred degrees in the garden and it's only spring, we haven't reached mid summer yet

In the house !