Bulgarian Village Garden

- How it was when we bought the house - overgrown and with a pigsty in it (Feb 2022) - Inside the pigsty (May 2022) - After the pigsty had been removed (Sept 2022) - Last year with tomatoes, sweetcorn & peppers (Aug 2023) - Currently

- Spotted Golden Orioles? - Dug over former garlic area - Dug over planting area in front of chillies - 2 cucumbers - Added banana mix to base of batch 1 tomatoes Planting: - Cherry Tomatoes (16 in 2 rows, barnside former garlic area) - Pink Silver Tomatoes (8 in 1 row, barnside former garlic area) - Чер Крим Tomatoes (10 in 1.3 rows, barnside former garlic area) - Red Edged Tomatoes (5 in 0.6 row, barnside former garlic area) - Ladies Breast Tomatoes (11 in 1 row, houseside in front of chillies) - Big Pink Tomatoes (10 in 1 row, houseside in front of chillies)

- Bought Garden Petunia hanging basket - Unusual flower on small lawn rose - Prepared planting area on Strawberry Steps - Dug out an exploratory turnip - Snipped all male flowers off courgettes - 3 cucumbers Planting: - Alpine Strawberries (31 in 2 rows, 2nd level of Strawberry Steps) - Garden Petunia (windowbox on terrace)

 - Light колтуча of batch 1 tomatoes - Rhododendron dead Planting: - Jalapeño Chillies (14 across 1.5 house side rows) - Habañero Chillies  (6 at barn end of house side row) - Indestructible Chillies (8 in house side row)

- Weeded & dug over planting area down from peppers - Weeded remainder of bottom of veggie patch - Turned over topsoil & evened out former herb garden area - Storklets are flying

- Adding lines to cucumber & tomato (batch 1) structures - Status update:   - Crocodile cucumber   - Satsuki Midori cucumber   - Tomatoes (batch 1) - Cut back all rocket - Attempted to weed & dig over growing area for chillies - 3 Courgettes - 2 Crocodile cucumber - 1 Satsuki Midori Planting: - Last years peppers (19 across 2 house side rows) - Black капия pepper (1 at barn end of house side row) - Yellow сивия peppers (4 at barn end of house side row) - 3 Edged peppers (8 at house end of house side row)