What with all this rain and sunshine, the veggie patch is look a bit crazy at the moment. There’s been a lot going on this past fortnight and I haven’t touched it. The weeds are doing pretty well too…:(

Firstly, we put the house on the market and then we accepted an offer and then we had to drive the length and breadth of britain to buy a new land rover so we’ve been running around like headless chickens but all in a good way, it just feels as though everything’s happening at once. Still, can’t complain but I think the veggies know that they’ve got to hurry up and start fruiting because they don’t know if the new owners will take care of them!

Sincerely hoping that we get some fruits of our labours before we move out. So this weekend, I’m going to start potting up various things in the ornamental borders that will divide or I’ve told them we’re taking (a beautiful burgandy scabious that was given as a present a few weeks ago for instance). Also all the veggie seedlings that I’d normally prick out will be potted on and we’ll fill the mother-in-law’s veggie patches. Doubtful they’ll survive in her hands and I suspect they will get forgotten about but worth a try and happy to eat my words… plus got to get all the pots moved over to my mother’s patio so they’ll be looked after – probably better than I would knowing her!

The hanging baskets are doing OK, they’ve not really started to flower properly yet but they’ve bedded down and filled out so I’m pretty impressed so far.

But with selling comes buying the next place and we’ve been to see a couple so far and it makes me think about three things:

1 it is surprising how little taste people have (in the house or garden)

2 what is the point of a front garden?

3 why aren’t new build houses built with a tray underneath the garden to collect the water?

Not proposing to expand much more on that but we went round what used to be a lovely ironstone property the other evening and the garden was ridiculous, not to mention the appaling way the house had been looked after. The mother of the owner lived two doors away and I could just tell that she’d be sticking her nose in anytime we changed anything and seeing as the first thing I’d be doing is getting the JCB in to clear all the paving and bricks walling out, I don’t think we’d be too popular. Hey ho, we won’t be going for a second viewing!

Off to see somewhere with a big garden at the weekend, so will keep you posted!