I think I can safely say this has been the warmest summer in years! Which has been amazing for all of us here at the walled garden (animals included)! All of crops are doing amazingly well, the currently ready crops are strawberries, lettuce, spinach, red currents, white currents, black currents and the tomatoes, carrots and cucumbers will soon be ripe for harvesting. We have our. Very special home made, home grown, organic strawberry jam up for sale in the shop here, as the taster I can proudly say its the best jam I have ever tasted! Thank you to Derek's sister, Helen Smith, for making the jam for us!
With this heat the amount of visitors at the garden is at an all time high, ice creams are selling by the dozen and the picnic benches are crammed full at lunch times!
The rhea are feeling very at home in this heat, rhea are originally from South America but have adapted to British temperatures, and so Tom and Barbra spend their days basking in the sun!
The ducks have migrated to the big pond beside the walled garden for the summer but they walk home every single night to be fed and put to their beds.
All the sheep and their lambs (including April and socks our two bottle fed lambs) are loving this weather with maybe the exception of Tulip who for some reason. Has still not lost her wool this summer (soay sheep lose their coats by shedding or well they are supposed to!).
Apart from all this heat and lovely sunshine (for the most part) the walled garden is still its peaceful, relaxing organic garden and I hope to see you all visiting soon!
For any further enquiries about he drummuir walled garden or the drummuir walled garden blog contact Emma at emmaheron-smith@hotmail.co.uk
With this heat the amount of visitors at the garden is at an all time high, ice creams are selling by the dozen and the picnic benches are crammed full at lunch times!
The rhea are feeling very at home in this heat, rhea are originally from South America but have adapted to British temperatures, and so Tom and Barbra spend their days basking in the sun!
The ducks have migrated to the big pond beside the walled garden for the summer but they walk home every single night to be fed and put to their beds.
All the sheep and their lambs (including April and socks our two bottle fed lambs) are loving this weather with maybe the exception of Tulip who for some reason. Has still not lost her wool this summer (soay sheep lose their coats by shedding or well they are supposed to!).
Apart from all this heat and lovely sunshine (for the most part) the walled garden is still its peaceful, relaxing organic garden and I hope to see you all visiting soon!
For any further enquiries about he drummuir walled garden or the drummuir walled garden blog contact Emma at emmaheron-smith@hotmail.co.uk
