Happy New Year!

Hoping you all had a fantastic Christmas and new year.

Despite having two energetic kittens, I am glad to say the Christmas tree stayed upright all through the holiday and suffered only one broken bauble and lost only a few of its lights due to a certain ‘nibbler’.

Anyway its been freezing and I am sure that like us many of you have had some snow, so I thought I would treat you all to a few seasonal snapshots of our garden from last year.

On New Years Eve we had a gathering and I discovered a mutual new interest in growing vegetables amongst myself and a few other friends. Probably sounding like a vegetable bore, I told them all about my trials and tribulations of 2009 but to be honest I was glad that the night had drawn in and they were unable to see the current state of the raised bed. I think I should have covered up the pepper plant as I *think* it might be dead.

Still on the bright side, the onions are still growing and there are lots of them!

Currently deciding what I would like to plant this year, I’m thinking about possibly carrots and giving the broccoli another go but that’s about it so far.

Any ideas or advice? Please let me know!