Friday open thread: back to the garden

[dolorosa_12]

It's the morning of the first day of a four-day weekend, I'm spending the holiday at home, and from tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be very nice. We've just had landscaping work done on our back garden, leaving us with six large vegetable patches, a slightly tidier herb garden (partly filled already with sage, rosemary and a massive bay tree), and a huge raised flower bed. The front garden, on which we had landscaping work done last year, now consists mainly of a large, L-shaped raised flower bed, partially filled with flowering bulbs, but still with lots more space to plant.

In other words, the perfect conditions to do some gardening this long weekend.

My question for you all, therefore, is what should I plant in my garden?

I already have seeds for peas, corn, parsnip, beetroot, zucchini, butternut pumpkin, radishes, tomatoes, rocket, lettuce, and spring onions, all of which I've grown in this garden before with varying levels of success. I'm also very keen to add to the herb garden, and need to fill the flowerbeds with something — so I'm open to suggestions!

If you don't want to suggest anything, feel free to use this prompt to talk about your own current gardening adventures.

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, how lovely! Good luck with your garden this year!

The Cambridge botanical garden seems to have a list of good flowering plants for pollinators, which I scrolled dreamily through thinking about places where it actually rains :D

[dolorosa_12]

Thanks for that list — it's really helpful!

It doesn't rain all that much in summer here — we're actually in the driest part of the country, although it certainly rains more than where you are.