Our New Life in the Country: Basil and me

Friday, 13 May 2011

Basil and me

The smell of Summer - Basil potted on from it's toilet roll tube starter pots.

Chilli and Peppers now potted on.

The Grape Vine, happily stretching out across its strings.

A busy day in the polytunnel, tidying, potting and planting. Blogger may have been missing in action for the day but you can see where I've been!!

Sue xx

3 comments:

Susan T14 May 2011 at 07:49
I have tubs full of herbs merrily growing, even in less than sunny Lancashire. Basil is now huge but has to be kept indoors, it is like me it wilts if it gets cold. I am addicted to the smell of it - wonderful stuff - great sprinkled on tomatoes on toast.
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Shaheen14 May 2011 at 14:40
Sue,

Your basil is thriving. For some reason, I've never been able to successfully grow basil.
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foreveryoung14 May 2011 at 17:27
You put my seed planting to shame. I have a tray of lettuces and a bit of rocket, although I do have a row of spring onions and about 6 carrots!!! Not the best of gardeners. My tomato plants are looking great though. Well done with the basil we can never get it to grow. Ann x
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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