Come for a wander with me as I pass many things I can eat or use in a tea. Violets, dandelions, cowslip, cabbages, kale, onions, leeks, rhubarb, nettles, sorrel… YUM. Who said the edible part of this garden was not good enough, not what I dreamed of? Oh that was me.
hi it’s sunny it’s fresh there was a bit
of a frost this morning but the garden
is beginning to wake up so I thought I’d
just share with you some of the flowers
and plants that are springing up as
spring
approaches come and join me come and see
what I can
find it’s getting towards the end of
March and we’ve got sunsh
sh and we have sunshine in the garden
even on a cloudy day with these
daffodils who’ve established themselves
at the base of the old apple
tree
and sometimes this time of the year I
sort of despare with this Garden but
looking just around here I can see two
small KES that have
self-seeded and this glorious thistle
that’s already
spraing and coming up which provides
lovely habitat and
seeds for insects and the birds in the
winter and I love their
sculptural sculptur I don’t know whether
that’s a word
really the tul
lips got very strong leaves in fact here
there one with a bug
the
cabbages are growing tall which means
they’re going to go to seed so I’ll have
some seed to sew later on in the year
which is
lovely walking onions are doing their
thing some really big strong ones looks
like there’s been an animal in
here having a little nose around and
maybe a munch that’s
okay one of the transplanted Co
slip plants just beginning to
flower there’s another one in
flower take you to in a
minute let’s walk over that
way oops lift you up so you can see the
sunshine so here it is
look absolutely beautiful I can smell
them from here been loving having them
in
teas over the winter when you open the
jar that’s got the dried flowerheads in
it smells of honey and the other jar
that smells of
Honey the one with the dried dandelion
heads look at that and of course you can
eat everything on a
dandelion and what really smells
beautiful in the garden at the moment
are the
violets look at
these oh it’s lovely about the violets
obviously is you get the color now and
the scent and the flowers are there for
the be early in the year but then their
leaves their lush green leaves Stay
Green all summer and I’ve just
spotted this I think it’s Viper bug
gloss it starts out pink and then they
turn blue the flowers beautiful I wasn’t
sure if it survived being
transplanted yes happy about that
one
lots of fennel coming up on the I’ll
call it the mouse’s M because while we
away the mice had great fun making their
home
here lots of nettles coming up too
that’s going to be food for me well I’ve
already been eating them and food for
the plants I will keep cutting them
while they’re young like this and put
them all around the plants so they’ve
got food look at the root
Barb
yum eating some of that soon although I
can see flower heads on them which is a
bit unusual this this early on Halls are
still going strong although their leaves
look a little bit like they’ve been
frosted the
flowers
continue
there’s another one
here it has oops I can get in there
slightly pink
flowers they seem to be spreading really
well
there might be worth getting a few more
for that
patch more
violets quite happy for them to spread
themselves
around oops don’t go too fast edges
looking thin and still very un hedgy but
we will feed feed and feed this
year with Nettles and
compost there are lots of
daisies
and some an enemies they haven’t come
out yet it’s not quite warm enough for
them well they’ve been out as
flowers uh for a couple of weeks now but
they just wait early
morning look this
one waiting for the sun to dry them off
a little bit more get a little bit more
heat in
here what else can I show you not a lot
happening in the grass areas
yet the F all that I keep cutting down
every year it’s coming back
up and this is good to see
so this is Chinese
cabbage and it’s got flowers so we’ll
have seeds for putting in later in the
year they were really
nice uh very
tasty and we got some leaks coming
up which need harvesting before they go
to
seat and I love this here we’ve got the
dark red of the Cabbage but these are so
white they’re so
pale
beautiful and the full scyth here is
coming out in its
Glory so it’s slowly waking
up this Garden I mean it’s not
the forest garden that I hoped it would
be by now because everything is so slow
to grow here and with all the climate
changes plants are struggling to keep up
with all the
changes and we’re learning what is happy
in this poor soil
and so it takes time here in the J in
France it takes
time
for forest garden to
establish but there’s lots of things to
eat for both us
and insects
birds no sign of
any frogs born
yet keep my fingers crossed maybe we’ll
get some this year and that’s it so I
will’ll see you in about a
month hope your Gardens are waking up
too thanks for
watching
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Made me happy watching this xxx