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I'm Polly and I pretend to grow stuff deliberately in a small garden in Belfast, but most of it happens by itself.
I have virtually no success with veg apart from lettuce, spuds, rocket and the occasional bean, but this year I'm trying onions. I moved the rhubarb this year and it's sulking, but I hope it will forgive me by next. I do much better with fruit that thrives on neglect like plums, redcurrants, blackcurrants and raspberries. I'm trying to teach the birds how to share and not to just gorb an entire bush of redcurrants while I'm still hunting for the nets.
I have mixed success with tomatoes every year and none with cucumbers so I've given up pretending that the greenhouse is anything other than another shed with better light than most and a ratty looking tomato plant in the corner.
The front garden is just a mad mixture of whatever I like and some stuff that I swear I didn't put there.
I have virtually no success with veg apart from lettuce, spuds, rocket and the occasional bean, but this year I'm trying onions. I moved the rhubarb this year and it's sulking, but I hope it will forgive me by next. I do much better with fruit that thrives on neglect like plums, redcurrants, blackcurrants and raspberries. I'm trying to teach the birds how to share and not to just gorb an entire bush of redcurrants while I'm still hunting for the nets.
I have mixed success with tomatoes every year and none with cucumbers so I've given up pretending that the greenhouse is anything other than another shed with better light than most and a ratty looking tomato plant in the corner.
The front garden is just a mad mixture of whatever I like and some stuff that I swear I didn't put there.
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