Flowers 2010

[Rhubarb]

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I like flowers that come back every year on their own.
Now I just grow things I can eat, or smoke. I mean tobacco, I grow tobacco sometimes just to prove to people that you can grow and make your own cigarettes even though I don't smoke.

A lazy gardener (if there ever is such a thing). Virtually all the garden runs itself, including the grass. We have a lawn mower but haven't used it for about 15 years, because the guinea-pigs keep it the right length and 'fertilised'. We have mostly bulbs or ornamental bushes, like St John's Wort and heathers. The lily have been doing really well until 2 years ago when I found lily bugs had moved in! I'm onto them this year
We grow cabbage in the flower bed and runner beans as a screen. They both started life as garden flowers before it was discovered they could be eaten, so we have continued with the idea, and mix flowers and veg' together, it looks great.

My grandad grew tobacco and rubbed it in with his favourite to 'stretch' it a bit further. I remember having to walk down a hallway to the bathroom with a ceiling of leaves overhead and potatoes in boxes and carrots in sand.