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

Allotment Abstract, my nephews patch, that he covered in weed suppressing cardboard, has sprouted a tree

Allotment Abstract, pulled out the grasses and reseeded the wildflowers