Fairy Eggs!
Matron grows vegetables and fruit in a Hampshire garden. I've been growing veggies since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Some traditional varieties and old favourites as well as new ideas. I share my garden with my allotment assistant Daisy the Labrador. On Twitter as @MatronsVeggies
I picked my first cucumber Delizia today. This is a new F1 hybrid available for the first time this year. A handy size for a lunch table.
The bees just LOVE vegetable flowers! I always try to leave a couple of whatever I am growing to go to seed and flower. The most spectacular success a couple of years ago was leaving a parsnip in the ground to grow and flower the next year. 6 ft tall and masses of yellow flowers covered in bees!
A wonderful surprise greeted me in the greenhouse this week!
I've certainly noticed fewer butterflies in the garden this year, have you?
Our plums are ripe at the moment. It has been a really great year for plums, plenty of large, sweet plums that are completely free of maggots this year.
This week sees Britain's largest flower show at Hampton Court.