The way it was

We have had a good visit to the garden today but we got rained off before I had taken my usual last-minute photos. Steve has made the willow arch a bit more robust. It is growing well but gets blown around quite a lot. I planted out more wallflowers and more comfrey against the barn. We will use the comfrey to enhance our own compost later. I will also be laying the bigger leaves under the tomato plants as extra feed.
One area in the raised bed has been used for sedum cuttings. These will become the living roof of our cobbed shed. They have filled out well. I had to rescue one lot which had been covered by self-seeded poppies. They went into a more open space. I brought broken bits home and planted up another 3 trays. Lots more to say about the sedum roof but I will post more at a later date.
I picked the first dried flowers....statice....and I noticed the helichrysum (also for drying) is nearly ready to pick. Wonder if anyone will want dried flowers. The white statice would be great for wedding buttonholes.
The weeding is a pleasure as the soil is so damp.
We had broad beans, cauliflower and courgettes for our dinner this evening.....delicious.
The barn is cleared, ready for the barn dance and the haybales are waiting to be arranged. There will be lots to do on Saturday.

Here are some photos taken in November 2010 on the day when Steve and I met Anne at the "plot" and decided to make it into a garden.

The pigsty is no longer there but the greenhouse is, of course. The weeds were mainly nettles, burdock, docks and brambles. The seeds are still germinating.

This is the raised bed!! At one time this was to have been a wormery. The soil is fantastic as its full of well-rotted manure.

This is the middle of our garden. It is quite astonishing how this is now covered with lush green grass. It does have a few docks and burdock which still come up, but every now and then we dig out a few.