We had a very dry summer in the UK and everywhere in Cambridge the grass was looking like straw. The watering rota was crucial for the survival of our fruit and veggies. Right now Szechuan peppers are ready, so are the apples, basil, tomatoes and beetroot.
Ben found this lovely creature earlier in the summer. Charlotte loves toads with their golden eyes.
She sent us a few lines of poetry: "Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.".
Earlier this summer we had AstraZeneca volunteers helping with the meeting hut; here are a few photos...
On a sad note, we said goodbye to Elisabeth and Didier, who have been part of the garden for many years and returned to France. Photos are posted with permission.
We finish with a song: Empty Common Garden Bee
(The Bladog Bee)
A bee there was just flying around
in the Empty Common garden.
It heard the sound of our music fine,
and said," I beg your pardon!
Who asked you here
to disturb the calm of this lovely garden idyll?
Not us, we say
Just go away!
Take your flutes and horns and fiddle!"
Well it stung the flute, and it stung the fiddle
We could see that it wasn't keen
as it chased us round the vegetables
in this lovely garden green.
