Saturday 11 April 2009

Beans and Peas

Another few feet of couch grass dug up, and now my broad beans (Aguadulce Supersimonia and Masterpiece Long Pod) and mange-tout peas (Golden Sweet) have a bed. In these pics, only the peas and the Aguadulce have been put in yet. The peas have rocket for company. Meanwhile, the flower bed has been planted with geraniums, strawberrys, alliums, dianthus, Anemone de Caen, and chionodoxa.

I don't have a great shot of my robin yet, but here he is anyway. (Note to American readers - yes, that's what we call a robin.) I was worried he and his wife might want to nest in the hedge, which still needs more clipping (I saw him feeding her worms, quite aggressively, one day); but they must have nested nearby to the north, as that's the direction he flies off in once he has filled his beak with grubs. He's a very talkative robin - whistles and mutters quietly the whole time.


















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  1. Kella29 April 2009 at 10:27

    Hi just checked out your blog, the garden is coming along lovely and if thats not a good shot of your robin I don't know what is :).

    PS it's me thifasmom :)

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  2. H30 April 2009 at 16:52

    Ah thanks! Well it's not such a bad pic, I just don't like the white background and subsequent loss of detail. Will keep trying. :)

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  3. Kella6 May 2009 at 10:04

    Goes to show how two people look at something, cause I like the way the white backdrop and blurry tree leaves allow the robin's features to stand out more. :)

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  4. H8 May 2009 at 00:59

    Thanks! :) I'll look at it that way too, then! It's funny looking at these pics today, and thinking
    a) blimey, everything has grown so much since then, and
    b) wow - it looked quite tidy - it's chaos now! Too much in progress and not enough finished! Must remember to take more pics, chaos or no chaos.

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  5. H8 May 2009 at 01:03

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  6. H8 May 2009 at 01:14

    ... and I realise, that must sound quite funny to a genuinely tidy person. Rubble sacks everywhere, clippings, piles of twigs, plastic bottles on canes, bits of trellis lying around, boxes of seedlings; and that's what I call 'when it was tidy'! - probably just as well I'm not on a public allotment. I could have the busybody in the next plot giving me a very hard time, judging by some of the stories I've heard on Allotments4All.

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  7. Kella8 May 2009 at 09:31

    Hmmm I'm like you at the moment, the garden plot is coming along well re the planting etc but it also looks very untidy. I've also got all manner of bits and bobs lying around, I keep meaning to sort them out but always find something more 'pressing' to do ;) My neighbour on the other hand always tidy up when he is finish, make me look like a right slob :(

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  8. Patricia2 October 2009 at 22:09

    garden looks good here, and the robin is lovely. i much prefer the british robin to the american version.

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