Summer! Well, it's almost here....

There has been some cerazy weather going on recently, super super hot days and almost NO RAIN! Insane, it's been hard work keeping the garden going and also a lot of water. I only have a watering can as I believe if I had a hose I would go a little bit watering happy, and end up with a huge bill (metered bills you see)...so it takes quite a long time to give the garden a good going over on those dry days, and I also find it difficult figuring out when the plants have had enough water.

My courgette plants didn't really fair very well, I planted lots straight into the ground in April looking to capitalise on the lovely warm weather, of all the seeds I sowed, I got two little courgette seedlings. One always looked ropey, and the other has continued to prosper:

Feeling sorry for that one lonely courgette, my mum gave me a big bundle of seedlings for my birthday; I was gicen four runner beans, four sweetcorn and two more courgette plants! I was rather pleased about this as the sweetcorn I planted shared a similar unfortunate story as the courgettes....but here they are, looking ready to grow up into something good!

I'm very excited about the height these plants will add to the overall look of the garden, when it's in full bloom, I will upload a photo of the whole space, right now it's all bare earth and tiny seedlings, which is exciting, mainly because you can see the progression of growth. I was just looking through old photos of the carrots and the sugarsnap peas (which I'm now actually convinced are mangetout - however an internet search has provided no back up for my turncoat theory), and realised how much everything has grown! It's so easy to look at the garden everyday and not notice those few centimetres or millimetres of growth each day...

I'm very excited at the prospect of harvesting enough peas to eat in a meal, they are delicious straight from the plant!