Changes in Gardening

My gardening life has changed rather recently, I have spent nearly all my life as gardener in private service. This has meant living in a tied house and when you change or lose your job you also change or lose your home. Thus happened to us in October 2010 when the person we had worked for for 25 years passed away. This has meant that from having as much garden as I wanted to having no garden at all.This has made me think of other ways to grow my begonias etc. Near our flat is an area of ground close to a very large pine tree, the area is full of large roots and could never be cultvated so I now have all my begonias in containers and made a feature of them on this unused ground .
To grow some vegetables I have taken on a small allotment which is in rather a bad state. Over the next few months I will post pictures to show progress, if any, with these ventures


It starts to look better as the plants grow but I will have to change the edging as the strimmer rips it part





So that we can have some vegetables I have taken on a small allotment which is in a very poor state but will try and follow through the year with both events.

Things are getting better. After I had planted the sweetcorn I am told that the badgers love sweetcorn, they wait until it is ready to harvest and then help themselves. I have put wire netting round in hope of getting some to eat. Have had good lettuce and fair potato crop so far but there is bad blight on one plot and nothing is being done to it so I exoect it will spread to all our plots.