It's been so long since I last blogged that I'll need to jog my memory! I haven't had time to do anything major to the garden. I work for the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and, as you may be aware, Glasgow hosted the Commonwealth Games at the start of August so "busy" isn't enough to describe how the office was during the month running up to the Games and the month after. Even now, we're still catching our tails with all the tasks and projects that were put on hold till "post-games-time"! I've also been distracted by birthdays and weddings!
The good thing is that the garden was looking good so all I had to do was cut the grass.
At the start of September, I was able to get out and have a proper look around.
My fuchsias produced some lovely flowers but because they're in a partially shady front garden, the buds don't get the chance to open out very often. This is despite the label saying they could be planted in part-shade. I quite like the different varieties of fuchsias. I never liked the plain old red ones. I remember when I was a child, our garden had the biggest red fuchsia bush ever and I called it the "bee bush" because it was always swarming with them. I was afraid to go near it! Now, I try to encourage bees into the garden! I haven't seen any bees around these fuchsias though...
I can't remember if I mentioned the potatoes in a previous blog... I'll need to do a separate one about them because I did a sort-of experiment. I dug the potatoes up in September and they weren't a bad size! A bit uneven though.
This blog is good for sorting out my memory actually! I can't remember if I blogged about the chili plants but, again, it can go in a separate blog because some things worked and some things didn't:
The red pepper plant didn't work very well... I got one pepper :D
However, my mum had given me a planter of lillies as a moving in present and I got a beautiful display at the start of July. I even managed to cut some for the house. Unfortunately they didn't last long and were covered in ants!
I could also do a separate blog about the strawberries. I'm still watching what happens with this guy. It grew very well this summer and I got loads of small strawberries off it. I think it must be an Alpine strawberry plant in which case it's fruit is meant to be that small. You can see in the photo that they're teeny in comparison to the shop bought berries!
And finally, the The Stick didn't let me down! An absolute belter of a crop this year. I made some blueberry muffins for my sister's graduation and the rest of the berries are in the freezer. I'm still thinking about what to do with them but can't help dipping into the freezer every now and again for a delicious frozen berry or two!
And so, it seems, despite my lack of attention, the majority of the plants in the garden got on fine with just minimal effort. For reference, I'll blog a bit later about potatoes, chilies, herbs, mange tout peas, strawberries and rhubarb (again).
