Planting out brassicas

After last week's cold spell - with daytime temperatures barely above freezing - this week has been pleasant and mild (by comparison). So yesterday encouraged by some warm sunshine I decided to plant out some cauliflower and cabbage seedlings round the garden. Not many - only half a dozen in total - but something to fill the bare salad beds from now till Spring.

Inspiration

 We've been out for another trip to Chatsworth - round their enormous kitchen garden - and I've come back with more ideas I can use here.
This very dark leaved aubergine would, I'm sure, work in a mixed flower and veg bed.

I don't have a shed in a position where I could grow currants up the side of it - but I'm going to have a go on the fence.

This is definitely the look I want to achieve in my pretty but productive section. So far this year, the slugs and snails are working against me as all the lettuce has been eaten!

Peonies among the vegetables? Well, why not.

pretty and productive - I hope

 We seem to have had constant rain recently but I took advantage of a brief respite to start my 'veg among the flowers' planting scheme with some blue flowered and podded peas - Blauwschokker.

Hopefully these will look attractive, like sweet peas, but still give a good crop of veg.

 

The wigwam is made from our tree trimmings - mainly the large front-garden rowan which has been severely lopped this year and some long lengths of my parents' apple tree.