I posted here about a month ago asking for advice on our garden and it was really helpful and encouraging so thank you!
We bought the house last summer and hadn’t touched the garden until now. Thanks to time off over easter, we got to clearing the jungle and have since watched the stuff we’ve planted become happier and happier (mostly.. there were some sacrificial sweet peas claimed by the slugs).
I’m sure I’ve made mistakes, I’m sure I’ll question my choices next year but I’m also sure this has been a wonderful, gratifying, fun month and I look forward to more time spent pottering in this space.
In the raised beds, I have lots of herbs and edible flowers sprouting around the edges, some salad seedlings in the middle and some wild rocket gifted by a friend. I’ve also just got a couple of blackcurrant bushes as a gift and they’re doing well at the far side of the raised beds. Gardeners are so keen to share and help out newbies and I so appreciate it.
I’m hoping to start passing on that kindness with my own cuttings, seedlings and seeds as things get established. I’m also already starting to curse at snails and slugs and intrigued by what fresh crop of garden enemies I’ll discover in the summer…