My own Eden

There's a major bright spot in my life - my garden. I love getting into it and doing stuff, or just checking out what's new and growing.

Yesterday we went to Superplants - a super nursery - and stocked up on well-rotted cow-smelling bags of goodness for my veggies and roses, with a few extra veg seeds and herbs.

As soon as I get home from work each day I dive straight into the garden and do a half-hour's relaxing and unwinding - pulling weeds in the lawn, watering, dead-heading or just wandering around measuring the things that have grown since yesterday, checking on what's flowering etc.

With tomatoes currently at 12 bucks a kilo, I'm relieved to see the first tomato flowers appearing. The plants have been well-manured and we're looking forward to 3 different varieties of tomatoes soon. My first zucchini is nearly ready for eating (my son does NOT rejoice). We're still enjoying a lot of other produce too. And all this from about 3x5m of land. Amazing what you can grow!

I'm not a conventional, everything-in-rows gardener. I like to chuck it all in together and see what happens. So far it's proved that a LOT can grow in a small space without problems - and that it keeps the weeds down too.

Call it farming practice, call it stress relief. At this time of year there's nowhere better to be than my garden. Bring it on, summer!