Garden +
Nature
The suburbs weren’t ready for
Chaos Gardening
Still room for more
Let the plants grow as they please
Freecycle your own Yorkshire dry stone wall
Let the garden trek
Leave some of the Dandelions and Daisies for the bees
Even the small gardens can have their own canal system & dried up river bed
Hidden views
Abstraction
Rill, canal, bridge,stream,dry river bed & rock pools
I am a rock artist
Spring Garden Chaos, haven't gotten to tidy it yet, so the tulips are caged
Outside the Allotment
ALLOTMENT ABSTRACTS
Water Butt Abstract, the hose has sprung a leak
Broad Bean Abstract with Vine Weevil
Potato Bags Abstract
A second crop of peas sprouting
It made such a beautiful effort, it can stay
Not All the Beans Came Up Abstract
New allotment, trying to work with nature eventually. The broad beans were being eaten by vine weevil, but they’ve moved on and the beans have recovered
Some for the creatures
Some for me
Some for the creature
If you want to start a veg garden but don't want the effort of weeding; lay down bags of compost with about 24 holes poked in the bottom, open the tops and plant away: nothing comes up, as you can see these have been down for weeks and that blade of grass is the only thing that's made it through. If you leave gaps for the weeds to grow between the bags, the soil will remain healthy and you'll have a supply of composting material you can easily pull up to make fresh compost, it'll keep you fit this slight amount of work and you are still maintaining a natural habitat.
Remove the plastic after a year or two tho, before it turns brittle and crumbles into the soil
Leek Abstract
Leek Abstract 2
Leek Abstract 3
Always put a branch in water butts, so any unfortunate creatures can climb back out
Spooky Abstract, reduced one of the GreenGage trees today, couple of big branches will need sawing
Brussel Sprout Seeds are tiny
Potato Bags Abstract 2
Bedding
All the Winter Beans Came Up Abstract
End of Season Scraps
Leaving the last of the peas for the slugs that are left after i controlled them with nemetodes, as long as we rebalance nature!
NEW SEASON
moving the veg bags of compost over more of the grassiness, will have to pull up the roots that have prospered
Perfect soil underneath and no weeding work needed
New water Butts abstract
The Broadbeans are sprouting, needs weeding until they can fend for themselves
Wasp nest in the shed, tried to encourage them to leave with Essential oils, it just made them use a hole in the back of the shed as a doorway so i think i’ll leave them as they’ll move on next year. Got my hosepipe out so i wont disturb them anymore. At least they will control the caterpillars
The broadbeans are fending for themselves well now, so less weeding needed. I saw butterflies feeding on the wild flowers i leave on my messy allotment experiment
The overgrown strawberries are still managing to fruit
Allotment Abstract, watering the raspberries, there are tones of them this year but they are all quite small so im watering in the hope that they will swell