peas...

....i love peas, almost as much as i love buttons, but in an eating way, not a stroking way. they're so sweet and fresh and tasty, my absolute favourite vegetable, i think that you can put them in literally any meal... and indeed for a while i did, until Timmy complained - who knew that you could have too much of a good thing?!

imagine then how enthralled i was while flicking through the myriad sky channels one night, when i stumbled upon the first episode of the Edible Garden (beans and peas)... i was hooked, what a wonderful series... what a wonderful host... the red headed fairy like Alys Fowler,  yes this is another girly crush post!

i love her life - a garden full of veggies, herbs, fruit, and flowers, weird and wonderful willow sculptures, a home made greenhouse (using old stained glass windows), and hens and a darling little dog for company, creating delicious food and stores from homegrown produce - heaven!

unfortunately i don't have the colouring for auburn hair, and i'm not allowed a dog (yet), but i do have the space for a green house, not hand made, but second hand, moved from yorkshire and reassembled by my dad - (thank you!x)

so.....i've been gardening,surprisingly successfully so far...... which is a bit of miracle really as in the past plants usually die when i come in to contact with them, but so far i've managed to grow tomatoes, cucumber lettuce and some herbs from seed, all of them flourishing, if not flowering yet, i've just this afternoon noticed that the courgette seeds in the propagator are beginning to germinate, and of course we have peas, beautiful beautiful peas.... Tim had better get used to them again this summer!

i'm so thrilled by it all, it's the same feeling i get when i cast off a pair of socks or sew the last few stitches on a quilt... i made that? really? i'm amazed and a little bit proud too! all the more so as i really have no idea what i'm doing, it's just my whimsical but unshakable sense of... if i will it so, it will happen! and so far it is :o)

whimsycate, x x x

p.s. it's nice to be back, but as always no promises i'll keep it up - i'm a lazy blogger!