Garden Pictures Pictures by steve (11 photos)

Its all looking good.......

Now that's what I call successful raised bed gardening, put's ours to shame. Must get going earlier next year!!

Wow, Steve you haven't let the grass grow under your feet!!lol. looks marvellous... Do I see Scarlet Runner Beans on teepee's ..., Potatoes, onions.??.. love your gravel paths between the raised beds! And your greenhouse and trellis... Isn't it great when all the hard slogging work of beginning is showing results.... I love to see the progress of a garden...will look forward to your mid-summer posts...

Wow! Looking good, and such a diverse selection. I'm impressed !!

The good life!

runner beans 'red rum' all flowers and very little leaf , had a lot of early damage by the sparrows, but seems better of late, may try white flowered runners next year , apparently the birds don't go for this colour.
just lifted 23 garlics, that were next to the shallots you can see, should keep us going for most of the winter. red cabbages( just out of shot to the left) nearly ready.
much prefer raised beds , easier on the back!!

Nothing tastes nicer than veg straight out the garden!! We have made a small area of raised beds this spring, about a quarter of yours and were a bit late planting. Even so we've done really well with Kidney beans, peas beetroot carrots potatoes and spring onions. Our best crop has been some little turnips which we really don't like the taste of and won't grow again :-( Raised beds have definitely been easier to manage

they certainly are joannie, easier on the old back as well!! we are always experimenting on new veg , some we like some we won't be growing again, this year we have 9 butternut squashes growing on 3 plants .

I've never tasted butternut squash although seen them in the supermarkets. What do you do with them?

Butternut squash and Italian Sausage soup MMMMM!
Lots of onions and garlic, sage and marjoram and just a touch of cream. Just fixed it for dinner tonight!

roasted veg , squash, courgette, pepper, onion &garlic added to pasta with a fresh pesto sauce and shavings of parmesan cheese........but that soup also looks good wohlibuli....now i'm torn!!

Butternut squash makes an excellent pie... like pumpkin, delicious. Squash soup....mmmm...or roast it halved with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon,nutmeg and cloves.

Thanks everyone for the recipe ideas, yummy, all sound delicious. I have to add a buttersquash page to my Recipe folder now for future reference :-)

Your photo looks great. This looks like a PROPER garden!