I always start the year with good intentions and normally by now my new year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside. However there is no rule to say this is the only time of year you can try to reset things and so I’m taking the opportunity with the start of a new month to be more focused and intentional with telling you about the … Continue reading I’m turning over a new leaf.
I may have lied at the start of the Make May Count project. Well maybe not lie exactly, just stretched the truth when I said, “the garden is looking tidy and in control”. I had dark areas of shame. Mostly in the Friday sector. It is nowhere near as well tended as the Monday sector. I just seem to lose steam by Friday and because … Continue reading Slight confession
Great news, the sun is shining, the builders are back, and things are happening. Although it was a little chilly this morning. It has just dawned on me that I’ll be building my new garden in the winter. Well, I always knew it, but from the balmy warmth of summer, all my imaginings were of nice days. There will be nice days, once any frosts … Continue reading Just add loads of the good stuff
With the trauma of the recent storm behind us and any bad weather ahead of us already firmly blamed on the fact it is the school holidays because it always happens that way. The moment they go back in a couple of weeks the sun will be shining and it will be the best conditions we will have seen in a long time. The house … Continue reading Chunky to Tiny
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
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.
