The Good Life

Ye Gods, we’re going to have to change our names to Tom and Barbara if we’re not careful.

The garden at the new house is turning out to be very productive. Considering that we’ve done close to bugger all in the garden this year (well, since moving in three months ago) it’s really quite surprising.

The greenhouse has produced – OK, for the pedantic, the veg in the greenhouse has produced – five or six cucumbers, about 50 chilli peppers, a bundle of tomatos (both cherry toms and larger plum toms) and a selection of normal sweet peppers, although they haven’t been great. We’ll try a different type next year.

The veg patch produced three full rows of spuds, of which we’ve currently only harvested one row. The rest’ll be coming up soon, believe me. It also produced more radishes than we could use, and about four or five meals-worth of broad beans. There’ve also been plenty of courgettes (and a couple that’ve grown into marrows) as well as some pumpkins that’re developing well.

And then we get to the fruit trees. The plum tree is awash with fruit, even though we’ve already taken about eight Kg off it. The two apple trees are equally laden- we’ve taken about 5Kg of fruit already, and there’s probably three or four times that on the two trees. The pears are still growing, so hopefully they’ll take a couple of weeks to sort themselves out before we have to set to with them as well.

Over the weekend we ended up buying a decent preserving pan, as a lot of the fruit is going to be made into jam. Should be fun.

And then at the start of next year, we’re considering getting some chickens. (If nothing else, it’ll be amusing to see how Hound and Psycho Cat handle that development!) And yes, Razorhead, I’ll be asking for advice on that one sometime soon, bearing in mind your copious knowledge…

So yes, it looks like we may somehow be becoming refugees from “The Good Life“. Oh dear….