What’s growing in the garden?

Here’s what’s currently growing on our allotment:

1. Slug-eaten swedes
2. Swiss rainbow chard
3. Late and not too optimistic marrows
4. The summer’s lettuces run to seed
5. Really tall swiss chard
6. Cabbages, albeit caterpillar eaten
7. Brussel sprouts
8. Worryingly autumnal looking privet
9. Wild brambles at the end of the garden

Stuff we have had but maybe didn’t mention:

1. New potatoes
2. Broad beans
3. Peas
4. Radishes
5. Lots of lettuce and rocket
6. Biiig marrow
7. A solitary head of broccoli

So whilst some things are a bit ‘odd’ (e.g. the tall cabbages or the too-late marrows) I would say it has been a good year.

I’ve been a bit child-like with some of it – e.g. the caterpillars eating all my cabbages fascinated rather than appalled me. Once the novelty wears off I will no doubt be less tolerant.

Outdoor space is also definitely good for the mind. I find myself going out there to do a two minute job and then getting completely side tracked with nothing in particular just because it’s nice to be wandering around outside. There aren’t many times that I feel as though I have time to savour things but out there I do.