Ilkeston - Fruit, Vegetables & Flowers
w/e 06 August 2017
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
I didn't have to go far for this set of images but
spent no more than twenty minutes in our garden.
There's a lot of foliage on the row of potatoes down the border.
Only twenty planted but if the crop replicates the growth above
ground there should be a reasonable return.
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The sunflowers are approaching five feet high but haven't burst
into bloom yet.
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We've just started picking runner beans and there's plenty more
to come.
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The blackberries too are starting to ripen and as they are a
thornless variety are quite easy to pick.
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This was going to be a picture of raspberries but I got distracted
by a butterfly on the leaves before I found the fruit.
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The rhubarb was ready for picking as usual at the end of April
but the dry weather meant it died down before being revived by
more recent rainfall. We've already made rhubarb and ginger jam,
rhubarb crumbles and there will probably be more sessions in
the kitchen with different recipes before the season ends.
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Tony's apple tree at the bottom of the garden has spread over
the fence and the branches are weighed down with fruit. I wonder
if he knows. He'll probably say "Help yourself" but
I guess we ought to tell him.
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It's not just fruit and vegetables in our garden. Working our
way back up the other side there are many different flowers,
geraniums, cornflowers, primulas, azaleas, fuschias and others
I can't remember the names of but pictured here is a lone anemone
among several love-in-a-mist plants.
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The lavender is also proving a great attraction to more butterflies
and a multitude of bees. Someone is going to have lavender flavoured
honey no doubt.
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But back at the top of the garden, we have our greenhouse and
the tomatoes are starting to crop quite heavily. Yes the weather
is always a talking point but this year it seems to have been
to the liking of all the flowers, fruit and vegetables in our
garden.
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