The garden is coming along nicely, although I would like it to be a touch faster, but there are only so many hours in the day. I’m still convinced I’ll get there. Having a teenager help, under duress, is filling the beds – slowly. I think Hubby the Un-Gardener may need to step up soon too. I’ll sell it to him like a pre summer … Continue reading Spuds and stuff.
You only really get one chance at a new start. And while we have been here since January and work started on the garden in May when the container that held our worldly possessions was emptied into the house and removed, today is a new start. Probably the last opportunity to call something a new start in my new garden. For me it is the … Continue reading A Notable Situation
Here I am on the doorstep of yet another season and I wonder, where does the time go? Sometimes I think it would be nice to have hobby that wasn’t so time stamped, as the passing of the seasons is so entwined with the happenings in the garden. For a non-gardener, the crossing of August into September is just another ordinary day – no different … Continue reading See Ya Winter
A friend of mine recently shared his lemon harvest with me, to which I was extremely grateful. Citrus has been my Achilles heel. I love to use the fragrant fruit in my kitchen in a multitude of ways, but over the last decade of being here a flourishing citrus grove has been elusive. It turns out they don’t like wet feet and so many poor … Continue reading Collecting Lemons
Winter is a long drawn out season with limited opportunity to do some real gardening. However, I don’t like just sit there and do nothing during these months. I like to do things that add value to my garden space and enhance my gardening season. Like the winter we built a compost system and wrapped a picket fence around it so it looked like a … Continue reading It’s all staged.
I suppose it makes a change from rain, and there is something mysterious about the fog. But I half expect Scooby Doo and Shaggy to stumble out of it exclaiming “Zoikes”. All going well it will clear to a nice blue sky day, which would be lovely as this week I have mostly been behind the computer catching up on all the things that need … Continue reading Foggy Friday
I don’t know if you remember a couple of summers ago I hosted an American carrot in my garden. He wasn’t just any old carrot – Gardenerd was a rather large plush carrot in the midst of a world tour. He was such a pleasure to have to visit and he helped me sow some carrot seeds in my garden and then we took him … Continue reading The Gardenerd Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
This post has been bought to you by the colour yellow, with a touch of blue thrown in for good measure. If you were to think of spring, the colour that immediately springs to mind is green. All that fresh new growth. The green is luminescent and vibrant and you can almost feel alive because of it. Its sense of well being and hope for … Continue reading Yellow
Ok, so I spent ages planning my garden and working out where everything will go based on it’s ultimate size and spacing requirements. I often tell people, once you have planned your garden then that’s pretty much it – if you want extras, don’t squeeze them in, extend your garden or pop them in containers. And that still pretty much applies. But, when Yates, my … Continue reading I need more Broad Beans!
I love tradition and fanfare. Any excuse for a celebration and I’m all over it. We need these things to mark the passage of time as life rolls around too fast. And it is with this thought bouncing around firmly in my head we find ourselves in August! Seriously – August 2017. It seems like yesterday I was waking up to a new day of … Continue reading Fret not – Plants don’t hurry
