Thursday 17 July 2014

June is busting out all over.

I have been so enjoying the weather. We have been very lucky over the last few weeks with weather here in East Lancashire, glorious day after glorious day with just enough occasional rain soakings to keep the garden very happy. My house is full of sweet peas which fill every room with their glorious scent and, as is the way with sweet peas, as soon as one batch is finished there is another huge crop ready to pick, they really are a wonderful Summer treat.


As you can see, the garden is at it's absolute best at the moment, with flowers galore, all spilling out on top of each other, with something to look at in each direction.



The hebe turned out to be a good choice to replace the blighted box, I just have to try and stop it from getting leggy as time goes on.

Finally I can safely say that the tomatoes are the best year ever. This is great news after 2 very poor years. I have 9 plants, all of which are doing well. Keeping them in the greenhouse for their whole life has definitely been the answer and the growbags have really come up trumps. I should have masses and masses before long.


Couldn't quite get a good enough angle on the photo to get them all in, but you get the idea.

I have been dieting and am only 4lbs off my target of 13 stone, (if you'd asked me last week I was 2lbs off target but something went wrong this week). Meals are so easy to plan at this time of year I find and it is also pretty easy to eat healthy food (as long as you like salad that is haha)

So life is ticking along well, my budgeting is going like a breeze right now, not much spare money but enough to be happy and certainly that is what counts :-)

12 comments:

  1. Your garden looks a wonderful picture. Enjoy the tomatoes - not that enjoying home-grown tomatoes was ever difficult!

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  2. Lovely garden pictures Glad your weight loss is going okay, always good to keep an eye on things to prevent problems later in life. Also glad that life is good and going so well for you at the moment.

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  3. Your garden looks beautiful Dan - what a transformation from when you first moved back North. Congrats on the weight loss!

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  4. Dan, you've got a spam above. I got the same one, didn't get past the moderation department :o))

    Garden looks good, all your hard work has paid off, now you are reaping the rewards. Good news about the diet.

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  5. Thanks, Spam is deleted, lucky I don't get much but it is annoying!

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  6. What a beautiful garden you have Dan. I wish I could pull something like that off but I am not green fingered in any way shape or form. Everything I have ever tried to grow dies on me :( I will just have to enjoy the beauty of other peoples gardens instead :)
    Much Love Claire from frugal living xxx

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  7. Your garden is stunning !! It has been such a pleasure watching it progress so well. You must ( and should !) be quite proud of the outcome of all the hard work !!! From Jeanie in Canada

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  8. The garden has filled in nicely and such pretty color! I need to try sweet peas over here....don't know how well they will work here but they are so pretty and I have never smelt them.

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  9. Wow, so so pretty. I'm jealous!!!!

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  10. What a lovely garden you have! It looks like your flowers are really enjoying the nice summer sun. They all look so gorgeous in bloom. Anyway, I hope you had a bountiful harvest with the produce. Thank you so much for sharing the pictures. All the best to you!

    Gwendolyn Reyes @ Tapestry

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