One of the great things about creating an organic growing space is the amount of wildlife it attracts. Most things (apart from slugs and snails this year) work in balance if left to their own devices, and if you wait long enough, a natural predator will usually come along and hoover up the problem.
Despite being accused of taking photographs to avoid doing any work, I took a few shots yesterday to show just some of the insects that have been visiting the garden lately, such as these hoverflies and bees. The borage is also alive with bumble bees at the moment, but I had trouble catching them in a photograph as they were moving so fast.
Peter and David finished off one of the jobs that had been on my mind for months, filling the last of the high raised bed. We got off to a great start as Alan had been in at 6am and cleared the weeds off the topsoil pile, so we could get moving and sifting straight away. It didn't stay empty for long: it's now filled with spinach and salad seeds and some spring cabbage transplants.
It was too warm to do anything too energetic (not had that problem much this year!) so I weeded the onion bed (again) and cleared the nettles from the mint patch. The jerusalem artichokes were all over the place as they had been battered by the wind and rain, so they needed tying back in as well.
I took a break from the garden this afternoon and went to the beach (and had a wonderfully refreshing swim in the North Sea) as I've been getting a bit stressed about the amount of work to do before the open day. A friend recently told me that you have to be careful not to get too obsessive about something you love doing and end up changing your relationship with it, losing some of that element of fun. Possibly a bit 'heavy' for this blog, but wise words indeed :)
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