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As promised, some poorly focused pictures of my garden.

Buying the sugar snap peas was very much a last minute thing. They were on the reduced shelf, only 65p for a tray of six plants, and to be honest, we didn't plant them out for a while. When we did we put them in a wall container under our kitchen window, and they grew like crazy. We have to pass the container to get inside and it's so easy to just reach out and snap off some peas to eat. They're so tasty.

One of the courgette plants. I had no idea that courgettes actually grew like that. Their flowers are so beautiful too, like triffids.

One of the outside tomato plants ( ignore the horribly long grass, it's rained for days now and we haven't been able to cut it ) Remember how we said we'd probably kill some of the tomato plants? Not so much. We gave away loads of plants and still had to put a load outside. Sadly the lack of sun means the tomatoes aren't ripening yet.

Spring onions. They taste great, but man, are they strong.

Peppers, which are supposed to be red peppers so I haven't picked them yet. I'm itching to get my hands on them though.

A long shot of the garden. My computer desk is just beyond that window, see how the terrifying courgette plants are brushing against it? One day they'll get inside, I just know it.

In that mess of greenery there are tomatoes, courgettes, carrots, beetroots and cucumbers.

We ran out of space for the plants so bought a cheap tomato house. That's right next to the kitchen door.

More tomatoes and flowers that really need to be dead-headed.

More peppers. As you can see from the tag they're supposed to be red.

A cucumber, and behind that my tray of soil that's supposed to be chives. Stupid chives.

Baby tomatoes!

Chillies. Lots of chillies!

We only bought two types of flowers. I love marigolds, so am glad we got these. Sadly they're not looking their best as they really need dead-heading, too.

Next year we intend to save up and buy a real green house. The plastic one we have now was really cheap and it's showing, with seams giving way. Plus, we've discovered that we like gardening a lot. It's hard work at times but so worth it.

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So fun! I have such a black thumb it's not even funny, but I love to see stuff that other people have grown. That'd be so fun to just walk out the door and grab lunch.

Peas in a hanging pot, how cool! When I lived in Vancouver I had a potted vegetable garden, grew my best head of broccoli to date in a pot *sigh* Miss it sometimes.

Ooooh, your garden is growing like CRAZY! There's just something so SATISFYING in seeing vegetables grow larger and ripen, even the sorts I don't particularly care for myself. I could probably gladly grow cucumbers and peppers and tomatoes and give them away if I'd the space.

Squash flowers are so pretty. Did you know that they're supposedly delicious dipped in a light batter and fried? I've never tried it myself but it's the sort of thing you see recipes of everywhere it seems.

Next year I suggest buying a plant or two of chives. That's the way I've always gotten it and a plant will usually last me for years. At least as long as I remember to cut it regularly and never let it start flowering. The flowers are very pretty but the stalks become very coarse and strong tasting.

Oh, sugar snap peas are such a wonderful, rewarding thing to grow. &peas;

Too bad about the tomatoes and peppers not ripening, but in the worst scenario, you can make green tomato chutney. Mmmm.

(Also, courgettes = totally triffids. Triffids on the hunt!)

Your plants all look so lush and gorgeous! Go you! And your harvests sound even better.

Also, I am delighted that your peppers are called Britney. What could be sparklier than that??

Looking good! You have a virtual jungle there! My dad would approve so hardcore. *g*

(In all honesty I love the picture of your chives dirt the most, ahahahaha)

You should come here and care for my flowers. I keeeel them.

When I was little, I loved dead-heading the marigolds. Sometimes I was a little too enthusiastic and wanting to pop the heads off ones that weren't dead yet too. :D

Your cucumber is HUGE.

Um. I mean. Your courgette's growing well? *snerk* And you've got Britney peppers! That is hilarious! My dad's been trying to grow some veg as well in our tiny balcony, but with clay-y kind of soil we have here it's not very successful. Not to mention we have altogether too much rain that will drown anything that dares poke its head out.

Dude, I feel healthy just looking at your garden! I love how you've grown an entire produce section of a grocery store in a container garden, and I love the little shots of color the flowers offer.

I'm extremely jealous of your bell peppers, though. I've tried growing bell peppers a couple times in the past and have had no luck at all. Also? That is one hell of a cucumber.

Now that's a lot of lovely veg! To have snap peas so readily available for snacking must be quite the treat!

Stupid chives, indeed!

ps...I need to dead-head my flowers, too. Some are so wee and tiny so it's a laborious, odd activity to do. The first time I plucked a dead flower head I felt so awful.

Oh wow. I am jealous as anything, since the most gardening I've been able to do this year is three tiny herb pots in the kitchen windowsill, but that's amazing. Root vegetables and ground vines in pots! That's seriously kind of impressive.

And woah. Your cucumber plant's totally hung. That there is the Ray Toro of cucumbers. [grins]

The courgettes are gorgeous, and you know those blossoms are edible, right? You can pick them and stuff them with, like, a cheese-parsley-herb mixture and bake them, or batter and deep fry them, or even eat them raw if I remember correctly. So if you find that you're being courgetted out of house and home, that's a suggestion to try and thin the herd.

I really really want a garden like you have there. Next year, I'm going to get all the necessary soil and pots and things for it. Hopefully next year I'll have a place of my own, and a place to grow these things. :)

Garden pictures, yay! Tiny cute tomatoes!

What you have here is a sane-sized version of my father in law's garden. Tomatoes, chilis, courgettes etc. Do you eat the nasturtiums, too? It all looks neat and very efficient.

Sadly, I am too lazy to grow tomatoes. Fresh-picked tomatoes are *so* good!

Fantastic garden!

OOOOOOO GARDEN......and poor chives dirt plot thingy:(

it looks like you have a forest back there awesome...and sometimes it seems like plants want to take over the world.

Plus your tomatoes look better than my dad's did(they got burned up by the sun and eaten by giant rabbits.

Your garden looks so good! Pretty much everything I planted died this year.

Wheeee! Wonderful garden!

So, SOOOOO jealous of all your foods.

Also, preeeetty.

This is a really pretty garden!
I like it like it when all the plants are big and take so much space! :)

\o/ Everything looks so good!

We keep trying to grow peppers and cucumbers and whatnot, but the weather here just isn't suited for it. They all turn out tiny, but at least they still taste good! XD

Wow! Your garden is impressive. So many yummy things!

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