Wednesday, 28 May 2025

My Garden Now

 The nasturtiums are finished. I've ripped them all out and piled them in a corner to turn into compost. 

The seeds went all over the place and I gathered up handfuls and threw them around. The nasturtiums come up by themselves every winter.


I also collected a container of seeds and I'll let them dry out.  If I soak them in October they should be good to sprout and I'll plant these as well.


The sage cuttings sprouted roots and are happily growing in pots. Now I just have to keep them alive and flourishing through the summer heat.


All my garden treasures, are reappearing out of the winter growth. Here's the spreading eagle. Probably had a place on someone's mantlepiece before I found it in a bazaar



Treasures. The unicorn was once my granddaughter Luli's money box. 



Tomatoes from a Greek salad buried in a pot. 
So many, growing like mad. It's survival of the fittest. I've staked the bigger ones and removed the lower shoots.  They already have tomatoes


More tomatoes growing in the lemon thyme



The amaryllis looking vibrant this year

Dry summer garden and summer hasn't even begun yet

16 comments:

  1. Tomatoes growing amidst the thyme - wonderful..Nasturtium seeds make poor man's capers - quite acceptable!

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    1. There were so many seeds but we have capers growing wild all around us and a jar of them in the fridge

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  2. Those tomatoes look verdant and healthy.

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    1. The tomatoes are very healthy and they're appearing in other pots and the raised garden. All from a salad dug into the soil as compost.

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    2. Salad-s plural. Lots of leftovers

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  3. How wonderful to have tomatoes growing so abundantly. We have to coax and nurture ours and hope the sun shines long enough!

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    1. They're loving this weather, sunshine during the day , rain at night.

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  4. I love how plants just reseed. It’s like free money!
    It seems that right now all around the world we are having extremes in weather. If your not flooded your in drought.

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    1. It certainly isn't summer here yet. Rain at night and a few thunderstorms.

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  5. What beautiful amaryllis! Volunteer tomatoes - that we should be so lucky... although I have some volunteer pumpkins sprouting in the compost. I expect frosts will see them off. Have you ever tried pickling nasturtium seeds?

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    1. The amaryllis gave a great show. It got a bit of fertiliser this year.
      I threw a lot of pumpkin seeds around but only 2 plants so far. They don't seem to like this year's compost. I'm hoping a few more plants will pop up. The summer garden is usually full of them, even though we don't get many pumpkins. They're my summer green cover.

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  6. My Nasturtiums are still going strong. I was just looking at some old photos of my veg garden in France; I really miss it. I have planted 2 Tomato plants here, so will keep my fingers crossed that there will be a few fruits on our return. All looks blooming on Poros.

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    1. So far so good. All the pots got a bit of fertiliser and new soil. It has helped. I'm hoping for tomatoes at least

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  7. Crossed fingers. All growing well as long as we have some more rain

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  8. Love your thyme. I've been wanting to grow some but so far haven't convinced the boss.

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    1. Thyme grows really well in a pot here. I've got ordinary thyme and lemon thyme

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