New arrival!

Well what can i say Rosie Louise arrived by C-section on Wednesday 30th of June 2010. She was born at 1:59pm and weighed in at 7lbs 15oz. She is beautiful and a real cutie. Mum and baby are doing well and mum is already up and walking around feeling only a little bit sore. So with hospital visits and sorting things out ready for them coming out of hospital, hopefully on saturday, not much will get done in the garden. Well its raining anyway so that means I dont have to worry about watering the plants.

Going to be a gran! baby due on 2nd of july.

Need to get digging and planting......

Need to get started in the veg garden but had keyhole surgery on my knee 3 weeks ago and still not back to full fitness so will have to just start planting seeds inside. Hopefully will convince dh or ds's to help with digging until back to normal. Still getting heavy frosts here so can't get to much done outside yet. Roll on summer!

Well good start to the year.
Greenhouse bought, set up and planted with tomatoes (4 varieties), sweet peppers and hot chilli peppers. All start to set fruit, tomatoes have loads of fruit and just start to get good ripe pickings when tomato blight hits. Have to remove all tomato plants from greenhouse and destroy them. Manage to save some of the fruit that wasn't affected. So now have a greenhouse with just chilli's and peppers. These were unaffected and are fruiting well thankfully! In vegetable patch have grown runner beans (easy, more than enough for us 5 and some for freezer), french climbing beans (reasonable crop) and courgettes (need more plants next year as 4 couldn't meet demands of my lot). Also grew broccoli and purple sprouting broccoli DISASTER! All plants devoured by catterpillars, millions of them urgh! Will have to re-think my veg planning for next year.