The cherry tree is the surprise star at the moment; I was expecting to wait many years before it gave me any fruits but I think at the moment it actually has more cherries than leaves! They may be cooking cherries but I still haven't been able to resist nibbling a few and whilst they're a little tart they're also totally delicious :D
The strawberries are in full swing at the moment; nearly all ripened now and oh so delicious; so many more fruits than I had last year and the flavour is just divine
It doesn't get much better than this !
On the healthier side of things I've definitely decided that growing lettuces is much, much easier when you buy baby ones from B&Q! I haven't had much luck with either sowing direct in the garden or raising seeds inside and transplanting but my £1.69 selection pack from B&Q is thriving and delivering wonderful side-salads for dinner; they're all cut and come again varieties so I can just keep snipping bits off and then they grow me more... perfect!
And finally my tomato forest is rapidly getting denser; I'm beginning to think that I may have been a tad optimistic with my spacings but on the plus side the tomatoes seem to have developed some really sturdy stems so I'm hoping that they'll be better able to bear the weight of their fruits than last years batch were.
It may not be the prettiest garden on earth but there is definitely something deeply satisfying about looking out over all of this and knowing that I nursed all of these plants from the tiniest little seedlings right up to the big, green monsters that are thriving today (except the weeds... those managed to tend themselves ;p)
