Ok, so there are 16 days left in May and I’m banging my head against a mid-month slump. It isn’t intentional but is I guess part of the reason I really need to make this month count – in the garden it is boring. There isn’t much to do at all. Certainly nothing challenging. So, I need to make it challenging and fun, so the … Continue reading I need a game plan
Tuesday could have, but I didn’t make it, and today is halfway through May and so it came as a bit of a wake up call and so I made certain I made it count. The problem is the weather. We have had howling gales and being so close to the sea, this – it would seem is the price we have to pay from … Continue reading Monday didn’t count…
It rained in the night. The weather station tells me it was over 5mm so a decent drop. It has almost been two weeks since the last lot of good rain. And before that it before that it was a week and the burst before that was 10 day earlier. It has been a mild and gentle autumn indeed. And it was jolly nice for … Continue reading Restful Rain
Thursday in the garden, according to the schedule is the small beds and containers around the dome. Technically it should include the dome itself and anything in it that needs a bit of love but today I had something else in mind instead of doing the dome. The first thing I got onto was something I’d been curious about for a while now. My kumara … Continue reading Well that was a tad disappointing
I didn’t sleep well last night. I woke for no reason at all at 3am and didn’t see the inside of my eyelids again for another hour and a half, and not for lack of trying either. So, I had to try even harder to Make May Count today. It would have been so easy to just rest this one out, but no, it’s Wednesday … Continue reading Sleepy Gardening
I’m really beginning to get my groove back and working in the garden is so energising. I have switched things around – normally I’d get on with the indoor work before rewarding myself by heading outdoors. But often I’d be so bogged down by the indoor stuff I’d barely get out the door to work on the garden, and then I’d convince myself there wasn’t … Continue reading Peanutty
In an effort to Make May Count, and not have it disappear out from under me in a blur of lethargy and can’t be botheredness… I am pushing myself to get out there and do things. Any things. Chores that are long overdue and exciting things that I have yet to come up with but will bring joy as I do them. It is hard … Continue reading Pea wrangling
After all the effort to get the garden ready for the garden party, I’ve kind of just rested on my laurels and I haven’t actually done a lot in the garden since. Well not on the scale of the work I did before the party. I have done a few things – like a little bit of path hoeing, which is actually kind of fun … Continue reading Make May Count
I’ve been a round the gardening block for ages, and I’ve learnt things. Many things. But still I fall into traps, make mistakes and don’t follow my own advice. One of the things I say often to many people – ‘if you don’t like it don’t grow it!’ That is why I have a large bed of kidney beans for yummy and delicious winter chilli … Continue reading Not all that glitters is gold
Nature abhors bare earth and who am I to argue with that. So not long after the bulldozer finished bulldozing I set to work laying out my garden. It is such a momentous thing. I have been dreaming about it for months and months. Fortunately, the vision in my head is flexible as it has needed to morph into something else a couple of times. … Continue reading Laying down in beds
