We've still been having a very mixed bag weatherwise here. Not only have the alternate showers of rain and spells of sun been good for all the wildflowers, they've also been great for the garden and my little herb wall that I planted earlier in the year has really filled in. It's actually become a bit of a herb jungle and I need to get snipping and drying some shoots. A month ago it looked like this…
and now it looks like this…
Fruit is doing well too. Strawberries…
Raspberries…
and apples…
…are all swelling nicely and I am looking forward to a good harvest later in the year (if I can keep the slugs at bay – there seems to be an army of them this year!)
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What a beautiful mix of greens! Good luck keeping the slugs at bay. 🙂
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Our apples haven’t been at all happy this year. Well, just the one tree anyway. Funny old weather. Gives us something to talk about at least! 🙂
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Ohhh, everything looks so lovely and fresh!
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I think your herb wall is absolutely lovely! My own herb patch has gone a bit wild – the mint is invading the lawn!!!
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Beautiful! We use Sluggo, it’s not harmful to other creatures and is a granular slug bait. Don’t think we’ll be able to have a garden this year, we just found out that one of the deer that live in our woods has a new fawn. It it tiny and just adorable. She hides it in our (weed patch of a) garden.
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Gorgeous! I didn’t get any of my herbs planted this year! Several things I’d wanted to plant this year didn’t happen. Oh well. Next year….
Your harvest looks just beautiful. The thought of all of those yummy herbs. Mmmmmmm.
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Oh my! how your herbs are growing! The mint is doing very well in my garden but the apples are not.
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Your garden is looking wonderful Julie!!
With all the rain and heat you can almost see the plants growing.
I know what you mean about the slugs and snails too, my sunflower leaves (the ones that are left) look like doilies!!
Vivienne x
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We had torrential rain causing flash flooding on the roads this morning whilst this afternoon has turned to bright sunshine and sauna like humidity. Your herbs are looking great, mine seem to be sulking though the pesky laurel hedge has grown at least two feet!
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I really love your photos!
My herbs were on the windowsill and I went downstairs one day to find the gale-force wind had knocked them off the sill! I was horrified.
The only things I have remaining are peppers, which I haven’t had much luck with this year because the mice keep eating them 😦
My dad and I used to do a slug-hunt with the dogs every night and go pick them off the plants! Disgusting, but really works and after a while there were definitely few!
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Hi Julie
Apples are my absolute favourite fruit, I am glad you will have some in the fall. Un fortunately our local crops were damaged this Spring with the pre warmth and then cold by 70%. I suppose that is nature or global warming. By the way, loved the mittens both kinds and am making a pair of each for both daughters going off to university in the fall.Kind of looking forward to the increase knitting time that might bring this fall.
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Your garden is growing beautifully Julie! Ours is growing – but the weather never seems nice enough to spend any time out there let alone get on with the planting! Lucy xx
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Wow. what a harvest!
dont worry about the slugs- they’re all in my garden 😉
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Your garden looks grand. Ive just dug up some onions that were going to seed.Though they look impressive on top, I didnt have much to show for my efforts.
louise
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Your garden looks so green – wonderful! Here in Kansas City it is still 80 degrees F (I don’t know what that is in C). It’s been 100 degrees or more all week, with no rain for a couple of weeks. Yard is brown, and watering the flowers is a must. Send some of your rain our way!
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Wow, look at those apples, mine are like marbles! I will have strawberries but it’s been so wet that the other berries have all failed. Gooseberries are coming along but the sparrows have their eyes on them…
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Everything looks great – so much green makes me smile 🙂
And I want to ask you what kind of camera do you have, because it makes awesome photos.
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Thanks so much Emma, I use a Panasonic Lumix camera
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I have cornered the market in slugs & snails – your herb garden puts mine to shame – the worst ever!
The fattest snail I’ve seen makes its way into my begonia filled wall basket every day and refuses to be relocated!
Something is helping itself to my radishes (leaves included) perhaps I have a (little cotton) Peter Rabbit!
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Oooh, isn’t it lovely when things grow!
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Your garden is growing beautifully Julie – mine resembles a rain forest!
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Love your herb garden and looks so inviting with the strawberries too. I have herbs and strawbs and a blueberry bush which I hope will fruit this year. It is cold here now so not a lot of growing, but the good old rosemary and lavendar keep me happy ☺☺
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Your herb wall is perfect – so green and lush. I wish my cutting garden would get a move on and start to resemble something so full of goodness!
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Oh goodness, that is glorious. I often think I’d be happy with just a herb garden and now I know I would. And how wonderful it must small after rain, or when the sun is on it. Are you seeing lots more bees and butterflies?
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Riotous growth, I think they’d call it. If they saw it. Whoever they are. Looks wonderful to me. We’ve had almost 40 days of nothing but sun and heat. Until my farmer cut the hay. You can’t have rain on cut hay without hurting it. So of course, it finally rained. But the mountains are burning all over the state, and many prayers have been offered up – almost none of them about saving the hay. So who can argue with prayers that earnestly made? The hay will work out. And the rain, when it came, was remarkable – soaking, earnest, long term – not the usual stuff we get. I will have to tug on those eternal robes and ask for hay help now – good thing that omnipotent means what it does.
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