Hello! This week’s newsletter is a bit of a departure from the usual – literally and metaphorically, as I’ve left my little veg patch behind me far to the south, and I am now in rainforest country. Not, of course, your standard-issue tropical rainforest (I wish!) but the rather more understated, and I believe considerably rarer temperate kind. I’m with my eldest daughter on a bit of a jolly to Snowdonia in North Wales this weekend, as she’s attempting to recreate the feeling of being in an ancient temperate rainforest inside a gallery in Newcastle for her Fine Art degree show this summer, as you do. So lots of pictures and video footage of all things rainforesty are required, and I have volunteered my services as a willing chauffeur, equipment carrier and general purveyor of admiration and encouragement. It has been an amazing trip: if you’ll forgive the departure from veg growing, I will write about it in more detail later in the week.
It is still the early season for me so only a few vegetables growing inside. But I will be transplanting them outside next weekend and starting new seeds! The season is here! So exciting. I hope you are having a nice time on your trip :)
We recently built a new home in a valley surrounded by mountains and are currently doing a large landscaping project that involves using 95% native plants to encourage the return of beneficial insects and to do our small part to help the environment. No garden yet due to the deer. But hopefully, we'll start our first garden here early next spring.
It is still the early season for me so only a few vegetables growing inside. But I will be transplanting them outside next weekend and starting new seeds! The season is here! So exciting. I hope you are having a nice time on your trip :)
I definitely will. And I'll keep following along on your blog!
We recently built a new home in a valley surrounded by mountains and are currently doing a large landscaping project that involves using 95% native plants to encourage the return of beneficial insects and to do our small part to help the environment. No garden yet due to the deer. But hopefully, we'll start our first garden here early next spring.
Yay too exciting! 😂 and trip is amazing thanks, so many trees 🍃🌳🌿