clematis | Eat the Earth

This is what my vegetable patch is looking like at the moment. All a bit overgrown and jungle-like.

Last week Mr Rigg and I cleared out some of the raised beds – a row of flowering radish, pea plants that had finished podding, some gangly borage plants growing from the pathways, and lettuce that was beginning to go to seed.

You can see in the back corner my raspberry bushes…from the photo they look like a huge sagging mess. Well they are, but they are laden with huge juicy raspberries so I’m not complaing too much – not even about their suckers that are coming up everywhere!

I also had to show off a couple of pictures of my ‘loganberry arch’. Mr Rigg’s parents have a gorgeous loganberry plant growing over a pergola – so I copied them, just on a smaller scale. Loganberries are a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry and grow very vigorously.

Mine is growing up over the arch from our garden into the vegetable patch. I’m also growing a purple clematis up the otherside – you can see the first flower in the picture below – so exciting!