Adventures in gardening with the inexperienced. Head gardeners, Simon and The Wife, are ably assisted by four off-spring, two dogs, one cat and hopefully one day a couple of chickens...

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Guests in the Garden

Wednesday rolls around again, which means another glorious day in the garden for me.  First up though, we took Our Youngest over to (potentially) her new school.  We are immensely proud as she, rather than throwing a wobbly, is genuinely excited about her assessment day.  We head home to a bit of light weeding and watering.

Now that the garden is broadly settled it has started to attract all sorts of guests from the insect kingdom.

A welcome guest in the shape of a Ladybird
A butterfly on the Den windowsill

Ants on the face of a Sunflower
A Hover Fly takes off from the Broad Beans


Meanwhile the rest of the garden is making the best of the mixture of sunshine and showers we have had.









A corn kernel emerges

 

The cucumbers are coming along nicely



2 comments:

Caroline said...

Lovely photos. Did you get any further forward with the chickens?

welly said...

Tip if you get chickens collect they poo makes great natural organic fertilizer, and if you get trouble with slugs they love lager. So leave a can outside with a bit off lager in see how many u catch