We are still eating every day from the garden - and picking cut flowers including May-sown sweet peas, scabious and rudbeckia 'Marmalade'. Vegetables still going strong include runner beans, mangetout, broccoli, courgettes (outside and in tunnel) and tomatoes.

Posted by Karen Guthrie
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 17:38 GMT

Topics: 'harvest vegetables'

...but spurred on by the patient NGS we announce next year's National Garden Scheme Open Day here at Lawson Park - It's Sunday July 18th 2010, 2pm-6pm.
Get it in your diary now....

Posted by Karen Guthrie
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 17:34 GMT

Topics: 'NGS garden visit'

Much to modest to blog it himself, here is Adam with Lawson Park's first prize winner - a red cabbage grown here in the Paddies, that trounced the competition at the recent Coniston and Torver Garden Club Annual Show.

Other successes included green chillis, herbs, runner beans and a cucumber. Sadly our interns' entries (a Battenburg cake in GA colours and a 'landscape' photo) went down rather poorly with the judges. But we love them anyway...

Throughout the afternoon we served up Toge soup, kimchee and sauerkraut all made from this cabbage's cousins to Show visitors, and it was a great success.

Posted by Karen Guthrie
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 18:10 GMT

Topics: 'vegetable show'