I've spent most of today outside tidying the garden and pruning. I'm a long way from being finished and as I work I think about what I can plant for this year.
I have a small wooden patio table and two chairs that Eden and I bought about six years ago. It was a wet Saturday but when we got it home I had to put it in the lounge so that we could have our lunch off it because Eden was so impatient. Anyway, it spends it's time in the shed (outside loo) so that it doesn't get spoiled, and comes out in the summer on a dry weekend and is then put away again. I had imagined that when I was retired I would be able to sit out in the garden in the summer under the big umbrella, wearing a long feminine floaty skirt with a straw sunhat and sipping chilled wine with lunch while enjoying the perfumes and blossoms of beautiful flowers! Ha! So much for dreams!
The problem with my garden is that it is not very big and totally enclosed by walls and buildings so that it gets very little sun in the winter and it resembles an oven in the summer. This means that most plants grow to more than twice their normal height in an effort to get the most of the sun and as the soil is very fertile, they also grow too large so I have to dig them up and remove them. We tried growing radishes last year but they grew 2 foot high with nothing at the root and the potatoes we planted in containers also grew so high that they fell over. We did get some potatoes but they cost about £3 a kilo after paying out for the compost, containers and seed potatoes!
This year, I'm sticking to flowers. I already have a few climbing roses and some low growing perennials so the rest will be annuals because they give a good show all summer long. The problem I have is which ones to buy. I really like so many of them that I may even buy several packets of seed and just scatter them everywhere and wait to see what grows!
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