Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts

Monday, 22 August 2011

Green fingers...Tasty Veg...







I posted a while ago that me and my mum had decided to grow our own vegetables this summer and so we planted the seeds and awaited the arrival of tasty produce. We've had tons of courgettes and potatoes and they've been absolutely delicious! We even had a couple of strawberries when we've managed to get there before the birds! Well worth it though. Roll on the lettuces and broccoli!


Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Little Green Gems...

The courgettes don't seem to be the only things springing to life! I noticed this morning that there are a few strawberries starting to grow on our strawberry plant. It's so amazing seeing all these wonderful plants grow and to think in a month or two's time we'll be eating the produce!

Monday, 18 April 2011

Gluey Fingers turn into Green Fingers?...








This summer I have decided that I want to grow some fruit and veg. As a child I used to love planting seeds and seeing them grow into something amazing. I felt all nostalgic the other day when I thought back to when I was a child and I went to my grandparents every Saturday. My Grandad was a keen gardner and I used to love exploring the wonders of my Grandparents' back garden. Afternoons spent picking bowls and bowls of raspberries, gooseberries and blackberries and shaking the apples off all their trees. I was too little to cut up the rhubarb but I would follow my Grandad down to the very bottom of the garden and watch as he cut off long pieces ready to be made into a crumble or pie by my Granny. He can't garden as much now and the raspberry bushes are gone as they were too much for him to look after. But it is time to get my own green fingers out and sow some seeds once again.

Me and my mum took a trip to Homebase and came back well equipped. We bought and planted some strawberry plants into a special strawberry plant pot and I planted some courgette seeds in little pots to start them off. We are also going to plant some potatoes and hopefully some carrots too. Maybe I'll be the one making the pies this time round. We'll see!