Preparing for the Vegetable Garden Party ..

Day 318 #365DaysWild

Whipping the vegetable garden into shape for the growing season. Growing one’s own fruit and vegetables is the most primal and satisfying uses of our time on this earth.

Calendula
& Red Admiral

Organic.

No-dig.

All compost our own.

All irrigation that isn’t rain is from collected rain water.

Little irrigation needed today as the rain grew heavier throughout the late afternoon, reluctantly driving us in.

The Head Gardener has drawn up our plan…

Hollyhock 

Leeks finishing.

Asparagus spears cropping.

Rhubarb blanching.

Potatoes just emerging.

Broad beans in flower.

Garlic looking good.

Seeds sown.

Dahlia

Simple flowers popular with pollinators: calendula, snapdragons, foxgloves, borage, comfrey, aquilegia, dahlias, honeysuckle and hollyhocks rooting strongly and ready to join the vegetable garden party..

The comfrey bed is burgeoning and ready to yield natures best liquid potash feed for tomatoes, beans, squash, courgettes and our fruit bushes..

Small pond for wildlife refreshment, bathing and breeding..

Buckets of rotting vegetation are around the garden as hoverfly nurseries..

More work needed - but the room has been prepared and now we await the guests..