A growing adventure

"Mmm Quite a lot of berries here then"

It's been a busy spring for me, trying to get everything organised. College exams coming up in a few weeks require study and with the radio station I am with finally due to go on the airwaves (at last) and not just on the internet I am trying to get programme ideas ready to record. Last year as you may have read I grew my lovely cherry tomatoes and was really chuffed with the result. So I am back on the bandwagon and growing them again and at present they are on my window sill and growing "mighty fine too!" But I did have ambitions of trying a few other, dare I say, crops this year and time was running out....

Tomatoes on the windowsill 

...So I took the bull by the horns and headed off to the local garden centre. Yes this was going to cost me money as I was starting out and didn't know much about what was required. In fact I had to ask for help almost as soon as I go there. There were so many veggies to choose from but I didn't want anything too complicated and in the end I went for a selection of seeds that in actual fact were geared for kids...about right for me then. These seeds consisted of lettuce, sweetcorn Carrots and ....more tomatoes. Well extra seeds are always handy and most important of all, I eat all of those so there wont be a waste. So having bought my seedling boxes and a grow bag that will go into the back garden as I dont have a good soil there, I headed of to the potatoe seed section and was advised as to what to get there.

Lettuce and sweetcorn up and coming

Potatoes in a grow bag with some of the
seaweed I collected

So I also have potatoes to care for and look after. I recently went to Inis Meain on the Aran Island where I learned that they put seaweed on the soil to fertilize it and as I have access to seaweed I have placed some over the compost and crossed my fingers.




Do I know what I am doing? No but I am doing a good impression of a hen keeping her nest eggs warm (without actually sitting on my seeds) and so now all I can do is wait. I'll let you know how it goes.

Finally I am trying to get some sort of a garden on the go this year just with flowers and bushes so I decided to pop to Lidl and get a blue berry, red berry and blackberry (i think) hedge and you can see one of them displayed at the top of this page. I hope to use some of the compost I have been making too over the last 2 years as I will need a lot for the plant bed and it would be nice to see it in action after all this time "brewing".

Will it be worth it all? We'll just have to see.