As I mentioned in the last update, I have a wonderful garden club coming to visit the garden next month, and I need to make the corners look nice. I think in the face of everything else I was in a little bit of denial as to just how bad I’d let those corners get. Looking at it through the eyes of others and how … Continue reading Not Panicking Yet
And just like that we are at the start of a new year, with the festive holiday season behind us and the months ahead stretching out like a blank canvas. Aside from a smattering of dates beginning to fill the calendar, the year is full of hope and potential and possibly plenty of achievement and reward. I haven’t set any ‘resolutions’ this year for the … Continue reading Rinse and Repeat
To mark the last day of January I filmed a quick garden tour to show the state of the garden as it stands, as representative of the middle month of summer. To be honest, I’m quite pleased with it, all things considered. On a hot, bright sunny day, everything looks wonderful, if not a little heat exhausted. Sit back and enjoy my garden like … Continue reading The Last Day of January
If I am to learn anything from this month is to lower my expectations. This is not a normal month where life ticks by with the ebb and flow of a reliable routine. It is filled with holidays and opportunities to hang out on the beach, or to visit or be visited. Not many people work normally for a large chunk of this month and … Continue reading January – A month in review
This is always such an interesting time of year; the summer holidays just keep giving. I have settled down in my garden office for the 3rd time this year determined to start the year on the right foot, with a calm and steady focus. And then opportunities for summer fun came along that were too good to say no to. And so, I have been … Continue reading And now we can begin properly.
I have been away on our annual summer break. I do find Christmas and the summer holiday a tad incompatible with a fully burgeoning garden, however that is an argument for another day and at the end of the day getting away from it all and spending time creating family memories takes precedence. So, we dragged ourselves away from our lovely West Coast vista and … Continue reading Now the Year can begin
After the drama of the Great Water Escape over Christmas when we lost over 30,000 litres overnight thanks to a tap fiddler, I’ve made a few changes. The leak wasn’t intentional as the tap didn’t immediately gush with water and needed the pump by the tank to activate before flowing so it was impossible to know if it was on or off. There was no … Continue reading Waterwise
I had a bit of a problem. Well it was a good problem, but with a knock on effect that turned it into a not so good problem. But in terms of real life serious problems it is hardly a blip at all so could probably be described as a good problem to have. I grew my onions too big! Normally my harvest is a … Continue reading Pickled Onion Problem
This takes us to the final phase of what I got up to this week. It got a little muddily towards the end of the week. The wind died down to just a gentle puff which was lovely. The first time it happened I remember this weird feeling of something being missing, as the sound of the wind whistling through the cracks and crannies in … Continue reading The state of the Garden Part Four of Three (or possibly four)
When you are in the garden you lose all track of time. I was out there the other day watering until 8pm. I wasn’t in the garden the whole time but in bursts of several hours and with the lovely long summer daylight hours it is so easy to blur an afternoon into an evening without realising it. It was actually quite pleasant. I had … Continue reading The state of the Garden Part Three of Three (or possibly four)
