Showing posts with label Rainbow Summer School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rainbow Summer School. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Growing and going green.

It's Outdoor Wednesday where all things green are often celebrated, the Rainbow Summer School is going green too this week.

After the torrential rain we have experienced this past week (ever since I wrote about the Hazy Lazy days, actually) everything in my garden is refreshed, luscious and green, indeed.
How about these gorgeous espaliered apples and pears growing against a usually sunny, ancient stone wall?
In the potager along with the organic fruits and vegetables, some of which I blogged about in last week's Summer School project, I cultivate a few culinary herbs. Tasty green chives, and leaves from my Bay tree enhanced by nature's tears above, and below flat leaf parsley growing right alongside a new crop of dwarf haricot beans.
The Scarlet runner bean crop had been excellent this year, they love the rain it seems, but once again I think there'll be plenty of green tomatoes for frying and making chutney this autumn.

Many thanks to Susan & Jenny for graciously hosting these excellent meme's. Click on the links on my sidebar to see who else is going green this week.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Rainbow Summer School: Just call me mellow Yellow

Courgette flowers.

For Mrs Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow summer school project some cool mellow yellows for your delectation. Fruits and flowers blooming in my garden this week. And in case you were wondering, courgettes and pumpkins are technically fruits because they have seeds.
Maybe teach will give me a gold star for that little factlet?


Golden yellow pumpkins.

See you in class.