A long long time ago....

In a garden in Plymouth, a blogger got very lazy, and didn't post for over a month.

But I am back! A week in Mallorca and lots of not being home later, I have updates of the garden.

Everything is blooming, though not quite as much as I would have hoped by now... here are some photographs of things anyway:

So this is the pre-weeded garden. Gladioli at the back right, peas on the back left and runner beans (which I said I wasn't going to plant, but then my mum gave me some seedlings - damn her!) in the foreground

Here we can see the gigantic courgette plant back left, with smaller ones in the centre - I have no idea why one side of the path is better for courgettes, maybe the runner beans I planted there last year left a lot more nitrogen and nutrients than I had anticipated! At the back on the left you can also see the carrots

This is the pre-lawn mowed photo. Chives forever going strong bottom left and the bench is still standing!

Here's a closer shot of the Gladioli, there's a tiger lily there too, but it looks like the Gladioli, so you might not be able to tell that's what it is. But it is.

I fone thing is going crazy it the sunflowers! Look at them! Definitely taller than me now at about 6ft, these are going to look splendid! Also visible is the purople sprouting broccoli I planted, inbetween the sunflowers and the pansies...I'm not entirely sure how I'll know when they're ready to harvest, but that's the joy of gardening right?

Post mowing/weeding! Doesn't the grass look dapper and the plants free to soak up nutrients without competition?! It was doing my head in, all those little weeds everywhere and the jungle for a lawn.

 I'd quite like to sit out here for the evening...now it's looking all smart and that

And this is the veg patch....I guess it is quite developed after the last post, where the courgettes were seedlings and now they have little courgettes on them!

I picked some carrots earlier, and and and, they are DEAD STRAIGHT! So win for my bucket idea! Photo's following soon.....