Garden Share collective January - fruit
Welcome to the garden share collective hosted by kate at rosehips and rhubarb and Kyrstie at a fresh legacy. Thank you for doing this, it keeps me motivated! The theme this month is fruit, and since I have a small garden I never really thought I would be able to grow much fruit. The main feature in my side garden is the lychee tree and this year I really wished we didn't have it in the garden. We had it pruned a while back and the gardener said that he couldn't lop the height off for some reason (I was at work when this happened) Of course it has now grown higher and when it fruited over December, we couldn't reach a single fruit, but believe me the bats and rosellas could! The noise, and the mess were horrendous. My poor hubby was raking up leaves and rotting fruit a couple of times a week to try and gain control, but the fallen fruit still attracted fruit fly. Well, end of the sorry story we are digging deep in our pockets and going ...