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Here, I journal the transformation of our tiny London backyard into a dream garden. I hope you will like it!

A dream garden, for me, is an outdoor space filled with rich colours and seductive scents, offering beautiful flowers, interesting textures and tasty morsels for our delectation. Also a source of nourishment for the local wildlife - birds, butterflies and bees. A space to enjoy with my SO, friends, family, and, of course, our cats. Somewhere to sit and have coffee, or even a meal, and a tiny patch of grass to lie on in the fleeting sunshine of the English summer. And, we're almost there...

Unless stated otherwise, all photos are by me (or my SO) and are clickable.

Monday, 24 September 2018

Autumn Equinox

The long, hot summer has been productive at the allotment.  Here's a few sample pics, but we also had kohlrabi, some radishes and carrots, and squash/pumpkin leaves (cooked as spinach).

Autumn Equinox was yesterday, and brought with it colder weather.  That meant having to harvest all leftover summer crops from the allotment, things like tomatoes, courgettes and squashes.

We had 2.5 kg green tomatoes, which I used to make pickles (there are still some left, I'll have to check out some recipes.  In the box are Spaghetti Squash, which we already tried a couple of times (it's tasty and light, but not terribly spaghetti-textured) and Blue Hubbard squash, still to be tasted.

Finally, here's an early September shot of the garden - the placement of the table in the non-grass lawn was fantastic during the hot, sunny summer.  We really felt one with nature, especially surrounded by the lavender and fennel which were buzzing with all kinds of bees.