Come on winter
“How is your garden?” a friend of mine asked the other week, and in replying, I discovered that I am looking forward to winter. It will give me a chance to catch up,and perhaps we will get rain, which will change everything.
As for gardening, this week thanks to childhood illness and a sleepless night, it has been one of those times when I have barely had energy to walk down to the garden and pick a lettuce (if any had survived the heat), let alone do anything seriously horticultural. Nevertheless the vegetable garden is rewarding me to an extent that I do not deserve. We have more tomatoes than we can eat, and zucchini that must be eaten every night before they become marrows.
Even the sweetcorn is yielding, although on the last couple of cobs the kernels were a bit dessicated due to lack of water.
As for the ornamentals? Well, I can tell you that camellias don’t like grey water. Our one, planted against the fence and shaded by the spiral stairway to our sundeck has all but given up the ghost.
Our front garden, on the other hand, planted mainly to herbs and particularly geraniums, rosemary and lavender, is one of the things that gives me hope. It looks magnificent, and all it gets is a once a fortnight bucketing with water from the dog’s bath.
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