Home-made rocket from crisp packets and a straw.

Gardening delights

Peep asked if we could do gardening. The sun was actually shining - not something Sheffield sees much of at the moment! SO we grabbed some gloves and started pulling up Teasles. Teasles are a traditional English country garden plant that has a purple cone head of flowers that goes on to feed birds through the winter with its seeds. I love that they self-seeded into my garden but they have a wonderful habit of growing everywhere, including in between paving slabs!

Then we got the secateurs and Jos joined in. We cut the drying seed heads of the Euphorbia off their stems. Peep didn't like how the Alchemilla Mollis was growing over the path (I thought it was actually quite beautiful!) so he got stuck in to cutting that back too.

With all this going on, and we had also earlier harvested some alpine and more typical strawberries, we decided to cut some flowers for our kitchen. We used the off-cuts of Alchemilla Mollis along with Lychosomachia (can't find it in Wiki so perhaps I have the name wrong!) and some Spiraea Japonica to add in some pink.















Peep also wanted to add some Lupin but they were turning to seed. Instead he pruned them back and lay the seed pods out on a tray in the sun. Hopefully we can dry them out and have a go at planting them in the spring!