Sunday we spent the day in the garden, it was a beautiful warm and sunny day.  I have taken some photographs to keep you up to date on what we have been doing.  The ‘veggie’ patch has now been extended into the garden having taken over what were two rose beds some long while back. One now contains the Jerusalem Artichokes and the other dug over on Sunday, now has early potatoes in it.

The plan is now to use another side flower bed as a further bed for the runner or pole beans. It already has some rhubarb in so it is half way there. The flowers are going have some vegetables for company, I sure it will work out fine in the end.

In the Autumn or Fall I will deep mulch all these new beds using the method in Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway, which I’m sure  will sort out the weeds and also improve the soil. This style of mulching is sometimes known as ‘lasange’ mulching because of the layers.  When it’s completed the beds shouldn’t need to be dug and that has to be the biggest bonus.

There were so many butterflies in the garden, and it is so good to see them.  Managed to capture an image on a photo’ but it doesn’t really do it justice, they are so beautiful.