“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana 1863 – 1952 These are wise words indeed for a gardener to heed. If you forget what you did last season you will make the same mistakes again this coming season. Spend the long nights going through your photos, notes (if you took them) and social media posts and try to remember … Continue reading Monday Message:
“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (An inspiring American horticulturist 1858 – 1954) Due to the sudden drop in temperature – although probably not cold by most folks standards – we don’t even get a frost here, I have decided computer gardening isn’t such a … Continue reading Monday Message
Keep doing the little things often so they don’t become big things later. This week I will be mostly weeding! Sarah the Gardener : o) Continue reading Monday Message:
May is done. We are now in a new month and a new season. Winter. The easy month. The one where it is ok to hunker down in a cosy spot and dream dreams of dream gardens without a weed in sight. It is a time for resting, recovering, and planning. There are a few things in the garden that can be done in a … Continue reading A month in review
Use the things you saved for a rainy day, on a rainy day. Today is a rainy day. I am in danger of being trapped in my office this evening because I don’t want to get wet and it is quite heavy right now. It has drizzly and rainy all day, which is great for the garden and the water tanks but not great for … Continue reading Monday Message
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 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
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
On a Tuesday… again. Same same but different. Stay home, stay safe. Shop local, shop sensible. This is a still a weird old time. The Monday Message is on a Tuesday because we had a public holiday on Monday and I try… in normal times to not work on weekends and holidays so I get to enjoy my family. So even though they Mondayised an … Continue reading Monday Message:
