I have been busy again in and around the garden in the last few days. I have been tackling those beach balls as promised but with mixed results. I still haven’t finished yet, so I’ll save the big reveal for when I’m done. But just to say things aren’t as easy as they look on the internet! I suspect my attempts will be less than … Continue reading Making things in May
Picking up from where we left off yesterday >You can catch up here< I am sharing my adventures in making the most of the peppers and chillies I have grown this season. No longer are they all just allowed to turn red and lobbed into the sweet chilli sauce. This time I have found out what make each one special and used them to that … Continue reading Two pecks of peppers
In my garden my pepper bed has space for 18 pepper plants. I normally pop in half a dozen bell peppers so I can have a good supply to freeze to use over the winter months as we use them in most meals. So that means there are 12 spots for interesting things. Ordinarily I kind of panic at the end of the season, let … Continue reading One peck of peppers
I can hardly believe the garden is 2 years old today. On this day in 2018 the shipping container company came and took away the container that had held all our worldly possessions. The caravan that we had lived in for 100 days while waiting for our house to arrive and be made liveable, had been relocated. Finally, after months of waiting the land where … Continue reading Happy Birthday Garden
Today marks the start of yet another new normal, and just when I was getting used to the last one. The kids headed off to school. The house is decidedly quiet, and Jasper the Dog is patiently awaiting their return by sitting at the window. They’ve been gone less than an hour. It is amazing how much things have changed since they last went to … Continue reading Another New Normal
I need to remind myself that while I’m attempting to Make May Count, I shouldn’t overdo it. I’m not superwoman, I am a mild mannered gardener with an annoying side kick called MS. It’s just that I get a little over enthusiastic with the sense of achievement and crave it more and more. Although getting things done is a great thing to chase in a … Continue reading Overdoing things
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
I have been so busy Making May Count that I didn’t get a chance to share the excitement with you. Saturday was productive but in a more laid back way. I continued moving thousands of photos across to my super storage device. It became essential as things became so chocca block full I was stopped from taking any more photos. While it was productive it … Continue reading Where to put my Mother’s Day Gift
I have to say I am rather glad I am trying to make the month count that is the least productive as far as effort required in the actual garden. I have spent way too long this week doing computer gardening and kitchen gardening for my liking. Having said that, the kitchen gardening is because of the garden. You have to process your produce or … Continue reading Five photo Friday
It was another mostly computer gardening day today and to be honest I didn’t mind being tucked up in my cosy office as the wind was howling and it was rather cold outside. Not exactly outside gardening weather. But what I did manage to do is process a few chilies. The ones smoked on yesterday’s BBQ had dried to a crisp in the dehydrator, along … Continue reading Hot Stuff!
