But I’m going to try and do 30 beds in 30 days! And the challenge started yesterday. I am sitting here with sore aching muscles. Initially I thought it was the foreign lurgy I brought home from our trip as a souvenir. Then it occurred to me – this is what hard work feels like! I have been so crazy busy on other projects and … Continue reading Please don’t consider me promiscuous
I have been so busy lately, working on the garden but not in it. Planning and organising; working on the greenhouse; tidying and preparing things; working on an exciting new project and generally getting ready for the new season. A lot of the work has been either on the computer and in the shed and mostly away from the garden. It’s not like I’ve been … Continue reading I need to get out more.
With limited time available to me I thought about what would be the best job that would make the most impact and allow me to cross something off my list. A quick scan across the patch drew my eye towards the asparagus beds. Ok so it wasn’t all that urgent, coming in at number 19 on my great big list of things to do. But … Continue reading The asparagus is ready and waiting for the spring.
I didn’t do anything in the garden for two main reasons. Number one – The temperature dropped quite dramatically. We have been used to a quite balmy 15°C average so far through most of the winter and when the sun comes out it can even be considered warm. However we had a fog that never really lifted, or if it did, it just revealed a … Continue reading Things to do in the garden
We didn’t get our snow. In fact we didn’t even get any clouds. How can you have snow without clouds? Even the wind was gentle with just the hint of a chill. I think the second half of the storm bypassed us completely. Other parts of the country are clearing up after a devastating storm and we are left counting our blessings. Once I got … Continue reading Anti-climax or blessing?
And I still haven’t finished planting out the garden. I feel like I am in some kind of race against time to get it all done. Most of the time the weather is my friend and it is warm and sunny, but we get these occasional spring showers that blow in from what seems like nowhere, dumps its load and disappears as quickly as it … Continue reading There are only 16 days left in spring…
I am almost there. There is only one bed left to sow. Everything else is planted and sown. All the beds are full and should be displaying a “No Vacancy” sign. Although most beds don’t look full as the seedlings are still quite small and are surrounded by a sea of soil. As a beginner gardener I would have taken care of this and crammed … Continue reading I’ve bean procrastinating!
I never in a million years would be guessed that I would be pleased to see rain, so soon after the recent weeks of heavy rain and sodden soil. But I am. Just a few short weeks ago we were having the worst spring rain. The ground was so soggy that it would only take a half hour shower to cause water to lie on … Continue reading The sweet blessing of rain.
The sun shined almost all day today. Once I was forced to shelter in the greenhouse and the other time the drops were so fat I thought that is was probably set in for the day so I came inside, scrubbed up and made a cuppa tea. Then I looked out the window to see blue sky again. This is the craziest weather. The boffins … Continue reading A weed by any other name
The change of season happens with the back end of August, so I have five days left dwell in the dying days of winter. The weather is supposed to be a mixed bag of rain, sun, and cold and then unsurprisingly the forecast for the first few days of spring are almost identical to the last days of winter so I don’t imagine there will … Continue reading This time next week we will officially be in the season of spring.
