How does your garden grow?

Pretty well, hopefully.  Despite the fact that Chez Chapman is on the market and we are en route to Southampton, I still want our tiny postage stamp sized garden to look pretty.  I want it to be somewhere I’ll look back on fondly when we no longer live here.  I’d like to be able to sit out with a nice refreshing drink surrounded by nice smelling plants that are thriving.  But mainly, I don’t want that blasted bindweed rearing its annoying-but-actually-quite-pretty head again.

And the weather is so gorgeous at the moment that today I thought, why not do a spot of planting?! The girls love to play out there and if they want to get grubby, they might as well get grubby by helping me out.  So in the car we hopped, and nipped out to Homebase, and came back an hour later, laden with gardening goodies.

I bought a tomato planter, 3 different tomato plants, chives, thyme and oregano to replenish my sorry looking herb garden.  And the girls had enormous fun.  Who knew Darcy and Ruby we so green fingered?  They helped me turn the compost, water the plants, replant them and pat them down in the soil.  And now I have the makings of an epic tomato salad growing out there in the sunshine.

But actually, I’m really pleased that Ruby is keen on gardening.  One of the things we’ll be looking for when its time for us to look for houses in Southampton, is a much bigger garden.  South West facing, please.  So we get the sun for as much of the day as possible.  I fully intend to get all Good Life on Ross’ behind and grow a substantial amount of food.  Knowing I’ll have at least one mini helper is a comforting thought.

The next thing on my list to buy (because I don’t think I want to stop now I’ve started) is an etagere to put all of aforementioned pot plants on.  Perhaps I’ll think about ordering that at the weekend.

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