Grow your Own! In a Small Garden
Why grow my own?
Because is it healthy, fresh produce straight from the garden with no pesticides, contains the maximum vitamins and minerals to promote healthy living!
It also saves money and helps with the household budget!
I get so excited about watching the progress of my carefully planted seeds sprouting from bare earth into tiny green shoots. I like to go out early in the morning and check to see if anything has changed or grown since the night before. Its so much fun to watch the seedlings grow through their different stages into ripened fruit & vegetables. It's such a rewarding feeling when the fresh produce is ready to pick and enjoy!
This morning I was hoping for the heatwave to continue in order to ripen my tomatoes, they are forming beautifully although not turning the lovely sweet orange colour just yet
The sooner you eat a ripe Tomato after it has been picked the better it will taste. The leafy tops are a good sign of freshness, they should be perky rather than wilted. Tomatoes are an excellent source of the antioxidant Lycopene .
Other vegetables growing in my garden at the moment and looking delicious
Spinach is well know for it's nutritional qualities and has been always regarded as a plant with remarkable abilities to restore energy, increase vitality and improve the quality of the blood.
Growing your own 5 a day has many health benefits
* It helps you eat more fresh fruit & vegetables
*You decide what kind of fertilizers & pesticides come in contact with your food
*It lets you control when to harvest your food. Vegetables that ripen in the garden have more nutrients than some shop brought vegetables that must be picked early.
I have got to add another photo of my roses are they are looking lovely in full summer bloom and the scent down the garden path is exquisite!
One Perfect Rose
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet—
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
“My fragile leaves,” it said, “his heart enclose.”
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
— Dorothy Parker
The smell?
There are five English rose fragrances, according to David Austin Roses.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/advanced.asp
A summary:
Myrrh: An aromatic, aniselike scent; among roses it's found almost exclusively in English roses.
Fruity: Because the rose is related to apricots, pears, apples, strawberries and others, fruity notes often surface.
Musk: A romantic scent, it often comes from the flower's stamens. People are especially sensitive to the scent.
Old rose: The classic rose fragrance, it's found almost exclusively in pink and red roses.
Tea rose: A strong scent — like that of fresh tea — that often dominates a flower. Other fragrances can become evident over time.
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