25th
May 2025
Dear All,
We
had an enjoyable day at Chelsea Flower Show on Monday mixing with the celebs of
course. We especially admired the exhibits in the marquee where the standard is
very high. The Show Gardens are OK but I always think they tend to be showing
off in stone, concrete and water and not really applicable to our own back
garden. The little Japanese guy who won the best garden was entertaining. There
was only one vegetable exhibit by “SheGrowsVeg” from Ipswich who had a Rainbow
of vegetables. The stand from Grenada was very interesting with displays of
herbs and spices and certainly the best smelling. Outside there was a range of
exotic ornaments for your garden including some amazing animals made from drift
wood – the life sized horse could be yours for as little as £40,000!
Show Gardens
Fuchsia Roundabout
Vegetable Rainbow
Delphinium & Begonia exhibit
Driftwood Horse
Garden Ornaments
Grenada Exhibit
Back
on the ranch planting carried on this week with more Sweet Corn and Squash plus
Brussels sprouts, Leeks and Sweet Potatoes. Mafeking was finally relieved with
10mm rain on Friday night.
The
biggest down this week was being stung by a bee at the allotment on Tuesday.
Initially there was no problem but by Thursday was having difficulty seeing!
Dangerous Gardening!
Thursday
was a long day with the walk followed by a CEEM meal and committee meeting.
The
walk was from Great Chesterford near Saffron Walden and was pleasant as it was
not too hot with several ups and downs. Winter crops looked quite good but
spring sowing was struggling with serious cracks everywhere.
Decent Barley Crop
Serious Cracks
Great Chesterford
The
“Battle of the Badgers” continues with Broad Beans being savaged this week!
Best
wishes
Mike
& Kate
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