The sunflowers are looking quite spectacular, towering over our runner beans (on the right) and the greenhouse:
The plum tree is bowed down with fruit. It'll soon be time to get plenty of plum jam and plum chutney on the go:
We have another big, curly cucumber! The first one tasted really nice and was also a pleasingly eccentric shape. Here's the new one:
And we have plenty of cute, tiny cucumbers growing too. The hope is that we can get enough together at one time to have a go at pickling them:
There haven't been many birds in the garden in the last few weeks (hopefully they've found plenty of food elsewhere and will return later in the year). But it's been buzzing with insects. More cabbage whites than I can ever remember seeing (which makes us fear for our winter cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli), but also this spectacular peacock:
And for the last week or two a buzzing crowd of honey bees, solitary bees and drone flies, who seem to like the flowering mint plants particularly well, including this one, which I think is a drone fly:
Finally, not really a picture from the garden, or produce related to the garden (other than a place you might drink it), here's a snap of the latest beer. I haven't brewed for a while (next brew day is Friday this week, I think), but I've still got plenty left thankfully. This one is from a Graham Wheeler recipe for Boddington's Bitter and it's a light, feisty, hoppy thing, with a really nice Harvey's-style tang to it:
The plum tree is bowed down with fruit. It'll soon be time to get plenty of plum jam and plum chutney on the go:
We have another big, curly cucumber! The first one tasted really nice and was also a pleasingly eccentric shape. Here's the new one:
And we have plenty of cute, tiny cucumbers growing too. The hope is that we can get enough together at one time to have a go at pickling them:
There haven't been many birds in the garden in the last few weeks (hopefully they've found plenty of food elsewhere and will return later in the year). But it's been buzzing with insects. More cabbage whites than I can ever remember seeing (which makes us fear for our winter cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli), but also this spectacular peacock:
And for the last week or two a buzzing crowd of honey bees, solitary bees and drone flies, who seem to like the flowering mint plants particularly well, including this one, which I think is a drone fly:
Finally, not really a picture from the garden, or produce related to the garden (other than a place you might drink it), here's a snap of the latest beer. I haven't brewed for a while (next brew day is Friday this week, I think), but I've still got plenty left thankfully. This one is from a Graham Wheeler recipe for Boddington's Bitter and it's a light, feisty, hoppy thing, with a really nice Harvey's-style tang to it:
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