Part of the orchards and edible gardens
This is an update on all that’s growing in the permaculture gardens today.
The season has been slow to get going, as the sunshine has been minimal, with rain and cold prevailing.
Apple blossom and blackcurrants at Bealtaine Cottage
Despite the appalling weather here in the west of Ireland, Apple trees are laden with blossom and bees are buzzing around the gardens busily pollinating all the blossom.
Plenty of bees in the permaculture gardens ensure masses of fruit and vegetables
The bees have been hard at work on the Blackcurrants, thus ensuring a good harvest to come.
Rhubarb in the permaculture gardens…pure abundance!
Rhubarb is cropping well, due to the top-dressing of manure from the hen house it received last Autumn.
This was mixed well with compost and straw and was well rotted down.
Broccoli in flower in the tunnel…seed to come and share!
Purple Broccoli is now flowering in the tunnel, so seeds will be available from Bealtaine Cottage later on in the season.
lots of seed to be harvested from the Lunaria later in the summer
Valerian is coming into flower and the Lunaria is seeding well.
beautiful Columbine from seed scattered outside the door of Bealtaine Cottage
Aquilegia is about to make a show…lots of this beautiful flower this year, as I have been busily throwing seed all over the gravel.
More photographs of the gardens from today…
Kale in flower, ready for seed setting…always choose the strongest plant to save seed from…
Thank you Eric from Oregon for sending me these Cedar seeds…and here they are, growing!
Roses,Willow and Jostaberry combine to make an edible archway in the edible gardens
Happy Sunday Everyone!
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