Nearly a lotti

[Grandma]

The good old days.



Things growing



High Summer



In the kitchen all night...



Reduced circumstances

[Grandma]

[kt.]

As good as. Bet its more safe than a lottie  :)

[wahaj]

beautiful images :) i wish i had a garden like that. i love your borders aswell....stunning!

[manicscousers]

makes me homesick for the summer  :(

[Hyacinth]

makes me homesick for the summer  :(

me too :'(

great pix Grandma 8)

[supersprout]

what fabulous pics grandma, thank you - makes me all nostalgic for the houses I've had with the long narrow strip behind, but my goodness yours looks so productive and neat!
'reduced circumstances'? looks like it has a Master Planner behind it, whatever its size ::) how many years have you been growing veg grandma?

[lorna]

Great pictures. Thank you

[Grandma]

Thanks for all your kind comments - it's time I 'came clean'! Only the last pic ('reduced circumstances') is current. The others were taken some years ago - clever son scanned them from old-fashioned prints. I only wanted to show that, although I'm a gatecrasher on A4A as I don't have a lottie, I have done a bit of veg growing in the 35 years I've been here. When I had two permanently starving sprogs to feed my patch really earned its keep - and I enjoyed doing it, too! Now it's SO different! Due to some health problems, the grass and the veg patch have had to go. They've been replaced by low-maintenance shingle, pebbles, shrubs and perennial stuff. My entire veg space now is what you see in that last pic!!! (Mind you, it does keep me in salad stuff, runner and french beans and I even managed to grow my pumpkin in it!)  Just leeks and spinach beet there at the moment. I haven't parted with any of my lovely fruit, though. Still grow rhubarb, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, red- white- and blackcurrants and gooseberries. Plus one small tree each of pear, plum and apricot. Nothing beats freshly-picked fruit! I feel better for having confessed all....

[supersprout]

lol did wonder ... fruit newbie here glad to have more Fruit Expertise on the forum :D
It just shows that gardening can give pleasure whatever physical ability you have, it was very sad when one of the regulars here gave up his lottie after a heart bypass because he 'couldn't dig'. The site rep and I suggested he just modify what he did to no-dig, but he couldn't imagine it :'( - I do admire people who are prepared to adapt and modify to their circs, hope you get loads of pleasure from 'reduced circs' and your enviable fruit collection ;) :D

Love those frames! :o