Green Blogging

It is rather a beautiful morning today and I feel I ought really to be doing something in the garden. Indeed I have just gone out there with that intention. But it is cold, and everything is still wet from recent rain Maybe I’ll write about it instead.

The garden is, frankly, a mess at the moment. (You can see what it ought to look like from the pictures). I do quite enjoy gardening, particularly vegetables and herbs (I used to run an allotment with my mother until it got too much for us). But last year things did not grow very well, and I decided (particularly as I was very busy with work stuff) that I would give it a ‘fallow year’ to recover itself.

So I cleared the beds, plonked some compost and comfrey leaves on them (I have some proper Bocking 14 comfrey in the front garden) and then covered them up with some boards and black plastic, to rest.

But it is nearly the end of the ‘fallow year’ now, and next year I must get it going again. Having had a year off, I am looking forward to it. Its a great feeling, when someone comes over to dinner, to be able to say casually “Actually I grew those carrots myself …”.