Rain, rain go away

So... It's raining again here at Beaugut so I have decided that, as I can't get out into my beloved garden, I will write about it instead. This is my my first blog entry on a little bit of Beaugut (which, for the uninitiated, is the name of the five house hamlet where we live).

My blog is mostly going to do with gardening and using the produce in such delights as jam, home made wine and other things designed to convince you that I am a domestic goddess - which, of course, I am not.


This shows where exactly the garden is and if you click on the picture you will go to Google earth (in a new window) and you can look around the area. If you click on any of the other pictures you should see a larger image.

So... the garden here is just about an acre and we have an orchard ...


Well, OK - more like an area of fruit trees and bushes.

We have left an area wild for all the little critters: we have all sorts in here, loads of bird types, crickets, voles, spiders, grass snakes and, well, loads of other things that I shall no doubt be showing you as time goes on.

It doesn't look like much at the moment but we have planted some pretty wild flowers and we have two willow whips that have taken well to the wet area that this is. If you look at the back of the picture there is a sloe bush/tree that gave us the makings of a lovely sloe gin last year.


Then, of course, there's the the veg patch or potager if you want to be posh.


This is the bit furthest away from the house and at the bottom of the slope that is the garden.

Here we have potatoes...


Broad beans...


Sweetcorn ...


and rhubarb


This part is closer to the house and the big open area is earmarked as a brassica patch.

Just to the left of that is the legume plot where I have planted a row of peas, and six French beans - nice wigwam don't you think!


You can also see a block of shallots to the left of the bean wigwam (thanks Wellie) and beyond that again is two rows of potatoes


Brassica plot again on the left and a plot for carrots, parsnips onions and garlic on the right


This picture is looking across all of the plots towards the orchard with a lovely mallow tree in the foreground


I also have a pretty full strawberry plot with some raspberries at the side of it, a bit overgrown at the moment I'm afraid, but I hope to show you some better pictures when I can get around to tidying up a bit.


Just before I finish for today, I must show you my passion fruit, yes, fruit - how exciting!