Growing Green

Growing our own fruit, veg and herbs is satisfying on so many levels.  All that mucking around with dirt; planting and transplanting seedlings or digging in bulbs; the sheer beauty of the first green shoots poking through the brown; the fun of figuring out what herbs and flowers to plant around veg to deter bugs and the weeding and watering.  Best of all is eating a sweet tomato or something yummy, fresh from its earthy bed.

Our raised beds are a triumph.  They were lovingly constructed from recycled railway sleepers, with lots of measuring and staking and re-measuring and checking levels and we can’t wait until they are bursting with life.

Adjacent to our raised beds are the obligatory compost chambers.  Our ‘kompost’, homegrown from recycling fruit & veg peelings etc, is the only thing we put onto our soil – no pesticides or harmful nasties in our organic gardens!