Apple blossom on one of the trees in our garden.
No work for me today as it’s a bank holiday, so we spent some family time together in our garden. We really appreciated all of the blossom on our fruit trees and took quite a few photos. We’ve posted most of these on Instagram today. Our Instagram page can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/slightlyselfsufficient/ Here are the photos we shared, plus a few bonus ones that didn’t make it to Instagram.
A young medlar growing on our patio medlar tree.
Growing your own can be disheartening sometimes. A couple of my runner beans suffered minor attacks from snails when they were in pots on the patio, but the vast majority were pristine. Within a couple of days of planting them out into the vegetable patch, every single one has been attacked by slugs/snails, and is covered with blackfly. As things stand they look like they’ll all survive, but it can be demoralising. But, just when I’m reflecting on the prospect of not getting the harvest I imagined from a particular crop, I’ll see a sight elsewhere in the garden that…