Some coverage of gardening

I referred in my preceding post to how the rain has generated lots of growth on the lawn.  It has also stimulated a lot of growth in our gardens.  Needless to say much of this has been weeds.

In places we have had too much rain (said Hanrahan ....) and some raspberry canes seem to have given up the ghost).  We have got a few spuds coming through although the deluge that occurred a few days after they were planted seems to destroyed quite a few tubers.  (It has been suggested we should grow rice instead.)

Having got a link of alternative cropping it is appropriate to mention that we have some strawberries growing in the sort of environment normally associated with cranberries.  However they are responding well: here is today's harvest - yum!

Somewhere in utility between the fruit and veg, and the flower gardens are the globe artichokes.  They have really kicked along as we now exclude rabbits, roos and wombats from the bed in which they are growing.  We like the look of the foliage and are going to eat the globes at an appropriate time.

The highlight (physical and metaphorical) in the garden at the moment is a patch of foxgloves.  They have taken two years to hit their straps but are magnificent.