With spring starting tomorrow I can hardly contain my excitement. The weather is settled and being kind. Well if you don’t count the 48 hour period last week that delivered over three and a half inches of nonstop rain. This freaked me out a little as I was on track to being the most spring ready I’d ever been and I was back to being … Continue reading Keeping things warm
With 9 days left of winter, you would easily believe spring is already here. The weather has been settled for over a week, with gentle frosts most mornings, and balmy afternoons that almost have you shed your jumper in favour of a tee-shirt. It is taking all my self-control not to get started and fill my greenhouse full of seedlings. But we are still in … Continue reading Spring has come early
This has to be the most frustrating time of the whole season. After much anticipation I finally sowed my pepper seeds. These are the first seeds to find themselves lovingly placed in seed raising mix in preparation for my summer garden. They are notoriously slow and experience has taught me that if I’m to have a decent harvest before my first frost in autumn then … Continue reading YooooHoooo – where are you?
There was a break in the weather, so I decided to crack on regardless of the muddy, floody grass around the garden. The raised beds themselves had drained nicely, so the soil structure around the garden just had to take a hit for the team. I did lay planks down in the places I’d be working the most in an exercise in damage limitation. Deciding … Continue reading Fake it until you make it
I woke up this morning and there was this strange bright orb sending laser beams onto my face making it hard to see back out the window. It took a moment or two to remember what it was. Oh yeah – the sun. We haven’t seen much of that about here lately. It has rained every day for 22 days, oh except that tease on … Continue reading OK that is it! I have had ENOUGH!
It is still raining. There are puddles on my puddles. Gardening is still very much out of the question. I’m seriously hoping the wild winds will help dry everything up. But I still needed to itch my green thumb so by the warmth of the fire I settled in to a day to tackling a project I’d been meaning to get onto for ages – … Continue reading It’s all in the planning
And so we have come to the final day of winter. When it comes to the spring and summer I prefer to go by the calendar as it brings the desirable seasons to me quicker. However for Autumn and Winter, if we go with the equinox / solstice system, then I can kid myself the good times last longer. I play it free and easy … Continue reading Signs of Spring
After procrastinating, I mean being delayed for so long, the rails on the fence surrounding my dream compost system went up surprisingly quickly and relatively easily. We stood back and admired our efforts with a degree of pride and a smidgen of shock that we had created this and it was starting to look good. Popping up the pickets was a two person job – … Continue reading Bringing the vision alive… part 2
For years I have been a bit lax in my composting. I was just dumping it in a great big pile, bad weeds and all. Compost has emerged from this system in an ad hoc kind of way. It wasn’t helped by Hubby the Un-Gardener who thought he was helping when he had a farmer friend with a tractor bury my almost ready compost pile … Continue reading I had a vision… Part 1
I have been working hard all winter behind the scenes putting together my dream compost system. It took way longer than I thought. I imagined we would knock it up in a couple of weekends, but it was far more complex than that, especially as we didn’t really know what we were doing and our construction skills leave a lot to be desired. But in … Continue reading Finally… the project
