Do something you have been putting off for ages. The weather isn’t exactly gardening weather and it seems it will be like that for the next few days. It would be easy enough to while away the time waiting for the bad weather to go away, but I need to be productive. Instead of mindlessly swiping through social media, I will brush up on some … Continue reading Monday Message
Ok, we are only three days into Make May Count and I didn’t do anything at all. But I have my excuses at the ready. It is Sunday, which is a day of rest, and I feel like I need to charge my batteries for the month ahead. And it was raining. The rain is welcome as it was quite dry in the garden. But … Continue reading Day of rest
Did May Count? Were my efforts to prevent this month from slipping away worth it? Did I make a difference to my gardening journey? Historically this is a strange month and looking back over my previous blog posts for the Month of May for the last 8 years it seems to be a collection of moaning about the weather with a combination of frosts, not … Continue reading Last May Day
As we are only a year and a bit into this new property beside the coast, there are no trees. It didn’t come with trees and I haven’t quite got to the point of planting some – well not quite, but that is a shameful story for another day! Besides, if I had planted any since moving here, they certainly wouldn’t be big enough to … Continue reading Raking in the Gold
Today is a good day. The sun is shining brightly, but more importantly the wind has gone. It was really hard to Make May Count in such non-conducive conditions. However, I did get out there and battle the elements, well the least harsh ones and got some stuff done. But this is just a quick pictorial update to let you know what I’ve been up to… … Continue reading Making May Count in Pictures
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
