It's all gone wild whilst I wasn't watching.

I've turned my back on my garden for the last three weeks, whilst I've been preoccupied with exam marking and school activities week. I finished my exam marking today, at midday and wallowed in the bath for ages! I then lolled around all afternoon, caught up on recorded Midsummer Murders (who would live there it's lethal!) and then, as it cooled down this evening went to walk Bobby Dazzler and checked up on the wild food around Liskeard that I'm keeping a keen eye on.

I came back and spend ages watering the plants and marvelling at my garden. Despite the dry weather, the hydrangeas are thriving and being pink, purple and blue all around my garden and looking amazing. It's the one flowering plant that seems to need neither extra water or any attention.

The roses are looking a bit sorry for themselves, but the bees like them.

My upside down tomatoes are starting to fruit and I'm watering and feeding them to nurture them along. The leaves are looking a bit unhealthy but they seem to be growing fruit just fine.

We've had a few lucky showers recently and I've had the water butt topped up a few times, which is brilliant as at one stage I was using the hose and that's expensive!

The butternut squash have gone crazy and are making a bid for freedom, they remind me of triffids! They seems to be meandering all over the garden and when I come home, I'm sure they've grown a metre. They are growing all over the gravel, up the fence, and into the flower bed, into the potatoes in fact where the heck they please! They are free spirited veg!

My 'squeaky' beans are thriving, flowering away and the beans have started to appear. The veg is doing quite well, we ate our carrots and our own new potatoes today, cooked with mint, also from the garden.

The bramley apple has doubled its yield this year...........there are two apples!

We've also been eating strawberries every day for weeks. They have done really well.


My potatoes in a bag have also thrived and we're eating them with everything. Where I have harvested and have an empty pot, I will plant some lettuce. I really needed the money and I'm glad I marked exams, did the extra tutoring and helped us straighten our finances, but now I'm looking forward to reading, knitting, making jam, cooking, sewing, walking on the moors and just sitting in my own garden!