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So, for the past few years I've occasionally been down to help with the grandparents veg patch.
This year I've been a lot more involved, mostly because the patch is really starting to work- and needed a lot of effort.
I got told that bees had set up a hive in the garden, and had been transferred to a makeshift hive.
That was quite exciting so I headed down this weekend.
We (under professional advice) carefully exchanged as much of the natural comb for prepared waxed and wired sheets, and this was quite exhilarating, lifting the lid off the hive and hearing that sound.... but our bees are pretty placid things, and ignored us totally. This should allow us to do some health checks and stuff. The colony's only been there for 3 days or so post swarm, but the honey found in the removed comb was ace! Proper excited about more next year.
Anyhow, here are some pictures of less than 10% of the produce of the veg patch, and other stuff- like our makeshift hive and chickens.
Hive:
Purple peas (not purple when podded though- very tasty):
Stuff:
Chickens:
I've got to come up with some serious recipes for chutneys and stuff.
Not pictured is mongolian purple garlic, and some tomatos and chilis that are in the greenhouse (not my domain) and some globe and jerusalem artichokes (mostly 'cos we ate them immediately).
I can't really take any credit for the growth or the skilled planting, but I've done some of the more manual laboring parts of it, and its nice to see it really work.