I've been desperate to sort our garden out so that we can take full advantage of the wonderful summer we're having so far. It's a tiny space (you're looking at almost the full width in that photo), but it's all we've got (well, along with an even smaller space out front) although we do have plans to make it a little bigger (in the near future hopefully). In the mean time though I've been really wanting to buy some flowers and veg and get planting, so that we could both make the best of what we have and make the most of it, by growing some of our own food as well as making it a lot prettier.
One of the problems though has been a lack of time and confidence. Weekends are a bit of a conundrum for me these days. On the one hand Jim's around so I should be working. But on the other hand Jim's around so I want to be spending time with the family. And then of course there's the housework and the decorating and the cooking and everything else that I want to do in those precious two days. So gardening, which is something that I have little experience of, is always bottom of the list because I never really know where to start.
Today though I went shopping with Hazel. We started at Ikea and bought succulents, hydrangeas and purple things (no idea!) and then went to B&Q and bought carrots, lettuce and purple sprouting broccoli as well as some Dahlia's and some different purple things (still no idea!). Then when we got home I opened a beer and watched as Hazel very patiently planted up most of the new purchases with the help of the girls. How's that for friendship? Seriously, that Hazel's a good egg!
And of course now that it's started I'm overly excited to keep going with it all. And I'm really excited about growing veg and teaching the girls that we can grow our own food, especially as Bella's at the "where does it come from stage" (did I mention that she asked me the classic "but how do babies get in your tummy" question the other day? Always a good one!). And Hazel's promised to keep us on track, which is good because this stuff also makes me a little nervous.
