Frosso the Basset Hound (Burnvale Yolanda) at 9 weeks old

and we got a basset at last

we got married !!!

The sun came out to day at last so we managed to get some veg in,carrots turnips

purple spuds

tom tom tom tom tom

tom tom tom

chillies joes long

sweet corn

beetroot

rubarb

pumpkin

corgettts

corgettts

oinions

GLOBE ARTICHOKE Boil, Oil, DONE.
globe artichoke number 2 its a goody, in the pan as i speak

mmmm come on the toms

view from top, we have some glass over the pumpkins to try and bring them on they are being a little shy

The carrots have done really well to the point where they are a topic of discussion at the local working mens club......apparetnly they are very diffuclt to grow round here

Mounge too rodders

behold our first corgette...let the onslaut begine...bring it on....i almost begrudge buying veg at the supper market at the moment.. i cant wiat to get harvesting...well...i can but im looking forward to it.

from l to r...sweet corn, beet root, beet root,Kill rabi french beans, runner beans, radicio, sweed, purple beans, onions, boloity beans, chinese lettus(higly recommended beautiful in salads and really pretty...oh and some more sweed from roy

Our 3rd glob artiechoke comming ...our second is in the pan as i speak...im going to boil it for an hour in salted heavilly oiled water and and then prepare and stick it in some olive oil for pizzas...higly recommended.

sprouts for chirstmas...loving the weather

Off course last years spuds are still sprouting heither and tither all over the plot...i dont have the heart to pull any of them.

The spud have been loving the rain....mmmm rub the skin off with your thumb, boil for 15 mins and drenche in butter salt and pepper what better a meal surley does not exist.

Cant live in newcastle with our having an abundance of leeks....second planting is nearly ready im going to make a concerted effort to make sure that we have some winter veg this year.

The chillie army marches on....i dont know where im going to put them all....but rest asured everyone is getting chillie sauce for their christmas box.

I love the close ups you can almost smell it.....come on the toms

more toms...my newly obtained irrigation system thanks to the demise of a local garden centre i recently had to survey......recycling i think its called

The tomatoes i think i have 7 varieties.....augherbeans in the foreground. they are staying small silently awaiting some sun

sorry bassetts again, weve been to another breeder today i think these are the people that are going to give us a puppy in about november whatch this space

awwwwwwww!!!!!!

Rotovator wining the hat competition

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH a frog and its mating our corrugated tin

augherbergerenes (i think)

radichio

The carrots are doing really well, really chuffed lets hope the dreaded fly stays of them this year

the poly tunnel is up and our tomatoes/obergenes and chillies are settling in although they still seem a little frightened, we have left the stucture a little more open this year to try and stop it getting as hot as last year...although it wont be difficult in this weather

The chillie plant army joes long, yellow sweet, wipits tails, mediterainanian sweet

First produce of the season a little bit chewed by the slugs but theres plenty for both of us

Onions are doing really well

Monge Too rodders

Nigella

Alliums

Our first globe artichoke

Spring is still in the air!

Spring flowers in the mountain very beautiful.

A bunch of red fish from the market, cooked straight on the BBQ served with a bit of lemon, nowt like it.

Weve just got back from corfu where we were helping Rotovater Senior with her veg garden, everything we have to grow in a polytunnel grows here like wild fire, in just one week everything grew by tonnes. In Corfu you garden in your Pajamas