Gardening Magazine

A Rant and Calming Pretty Pictures

By Chrryblossomtat2
Today is La Tomatina in Valencia, Spain and, as with every year, I feel my heart breaking at the wastage of all those beautiful red tomatoes in a world were we had an aphid apocalypse in our greenhouse and too many people are truly starving to death or have illnesses like scurvy.
Yep, I'm a spoil sport and I hope everyone who takes part in the festivities today gets hit - whack bang!, in the bum at least once. Damn it.
Deep breath
So I've been ill again for a while and to be honest I still am and the exhaustion accompanying it has had me sleeping whole days away. For you though, I have imbibed much coffee and here we go with a calming post of all those photos I just haven't got around to sharing; I'm also hoping that this will wake up my resolve to get the lottie and use my new Fiskers SmartFit pruners and bring some more flowers home ..... I also have a new book to review on flower arranging crafts so...

forget-me-not ~ 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

forget-me-not

mushroom ~ 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

mushroom

dwarf french beans - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

dwarf french beans


blackberries! - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

Blackberry bush is covered in fruits = fingers crossed; it's us against the birds!

perfect white cosmos - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

White Cosmos - I love them so

mangetout - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

last handful of mangetout

allotment cut flowers - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

white cosmos, white dahlia, yellow dahlia, pink rose, yellow poppies, red poppies

ittle red peppers - 'growourown.blogspot.com' - an allotment blog

little red peppers (some have dried tomato flowers petals on them)

Right, I did it, I wrote a wee post and now the whole idea isn't so daunting! I shall be back soon with more photos (I hope to go to the plots this evening) and reviews :)
Much love
Carrie

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