Cobbing and French beans

We had a very exciting day at the garden yesterday when my nephew and his family came to visit. They all love the organic, home-grown vegetables and we had a good time picking them all. We harvested five and a half pounds of French beans and then we had fresh scones with raspberry jam. In the evening we had a lovely meal altogether, with all our own veg. They went home this morning laden with even more.

 

Here is my great-nephew, Aiden, with his mum in between the bean rows.

There were lots of campers around admiring our garden. One family with three little ones were off blackberry picking. They ended up with bowls full of flowers.........sweetpeas, calendula, statice and helichrysum. We even found some odd strawberries.

On Saturday we mixed a few loads of cob and I gave myself a slight backache. Its not the treading but the lifting, when the mixture tends to stick, through suction, to the tarpaulin. 

We nearly got a complete round done.

Soon we will be needing to think where the little round windows will go.

 

Before all our visitors arrived I removed as many thistles as I could from around our garden entrance before they go to seed. There is a lot more tidying and clearing to do and the nettles are coming through yet again.

We will need to be well protected for that job.

 

 Somehow we missed this cucumber!!!
 

The butterfly garden is still looking good after several months.