I just picked a flower for you all

I hope you enjoy it.

Broad Beans

This is all that is left of my Broad Beans having striped the bushes clean of their beans and cleared their bed.
After having pulled a few out roots and all I noticed some good nitrogen nodules on their root system so I'll leave the rest with their roots in the soil and then work them back through the soil.
The big bowl on the left will b frozen the little bowl on the right is about go into a Bacon and Broad bean Risotto.
I did leave one bush though, having noticed that it produced more beans than the others so I have decided to grow it on to seed and use it's seeds for next year.



Just a photo to show the progress of my pumpkin and watermelon that I'd mentioned last week.

Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens'

This is a photo of my Purple sage which greets me from my back door each day. For some reason I feel happy when I walk past it.

Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens', a purple-leafed cultivar, considered by some to be strongest of the garden sages.
'Purpurascens' is a purple leafed cultivar of S.officinalis. The purple-gray foliage produces an interesting color note in the garden. Height 24-32", spread 3'. Salvia officinalis is the common garden sage widely known and used as a culinary herb in poultry stuffing, omellettes, soups and bean dishes. It is also used as a medicinal herb. It is a shrubby evergreen perennial with many branched stems and velvety gray-green leaves about 2" long. Flowers are generally violet spikes, with white and pink cultivars available. Height 24-32",spread up to 3'. Thrives in full sun in well drained soil.
More info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guess who's coming to dinner.

Mr Beetroot
Ms Carrot
Mr Leek
Ms Turnip
Master Broad bean.
Plus Miss Cabbage currently not present in photo but arrived early.

Hi Ho Hi Ho

Hi Ho Hi Ho its watering time you know. 'whistle whistle'.
Hi Ho Hi Ho this is where my time will go.

It's so much easier when it rains.
With higher temperatures predicted and I can't remember the last time it rained, two nine liter watering cans and a rain water tank I've got a few miles of watering ahead.
So
Hi Ho Hi Ho its watering time you know. 'whistle whistle'.
Hi Ho Hi Ho this is where my time will go.

The fruits of my labour.

The fruits of my labour.
Broad beans
Savoy cabbage
Leeks, which went into a very nice potato and leek soup, thank you very much.
And there's more where that came from.
I'm lovin' this.








More potato hillin'.
No more blood and bone for these guys they are just growing to fast.
I did give them a watering of charlie carp after hilling though.
I don't know if you can pick it up in the photos, but you may notice the spud plants are bigger from front to back.
This has been caused by soil temperature due to the back half of the garden bed being shaded all winter by a garden shed. So as the sun returns to the bed it only warms the earth as its shadow is reduced therefore the difference in growth from front to back.