My poor orchard has been left to its own devices yet again. I have seemed to have developed a do or die attitude with the trees down the end, in the ultimate low maintenance gardening style. However orchards aren’t meant to be low maintenance. They have wants and needs like everything else. But sometimes when life knocks the wind out of your sails, something has … Continue reading Fruitfulness in spite of it all
I made a terrible mistake on the weekend. I was a bit knackered on Sunday and had to have a bit of a lie down. I fear I may have over done things during the week trying to whip the garden into shape and get things back on time. The good thing is I’m nearly there. The tomatoes, peppers, brassicas, boysenberry, gooseberry, spring onions and … Continue reading Is anybody in there?
I’ve been quite busy this week and there have been a lot of changes to the garden. But the best bit is the tomatoes and a whole range of other plants are in, Hooray. But the sun is still shining magnificently and it is calling to me to get out there and soak it in. So while I’m out there getting some garden action, … Continue reading The Tomatoes are in!
Finally we have reached the last part of the tour. I do love having a large garden and eating the fruits of my labour, but I do have to say at times there is a lot of labour! I am blessed enough to have this incredible space and want to do my best to encourage others to pick up a spade. Normal people don’t need … Continue reading The Big Picture – Part three
Just to recap from yesterday. I’m bringing you all up to date with the garden as it is now – warts and all. I’m running behind, but this is ok. It is still spring. So moving on from the onion and garlic of yesterday we have what makes a garden feel like a garden. Tomatoes are almost essential in a veggie patch. Well they do … Continue reading The Big Picture – Part two
This is almost more for me than you, but I love sharing my garden and I thought you’d like to see the big picture of how the garden is coming along for the season. This is the key to it all. I am running about a week behind where I normally am, but I’m not panicking much. I am getting there. The end is in … Continue reading The Big Picture – part one
And I have never longed for a date to change on a calendar so much. I want to just put this horrible spring behind us and never speak of it again! Well maybe I will. It can be referred to as “That spring” or ‘The Dreadful Spring of 2014” forever burnt into our memories as being so dire I went as far as to put … Continue reading This time next week I’ll be in a completely different season.
Brief: Focus on one color this weekend, then, select your favorites from your shoot and publish a gallery. And Observe and capture an entire scene, but also zooming in within it. There was other stuff too but I’ll save that for another day. I can’t take in too much in one go! For the colour one, I went all around my garden and looked for anything … Continue reading Garden Love on the Weekend
I can’t believe we have had … I struggle to find the words – sunny days is too overstated, but cloudy days hardly seems worth getting excited about. The wind is still there and it rains overnight – which is convenient. But it is still really quite cold and definitely not imminently pre-summer weather. I know: Hooray, we have had four gardenable days in a … Continue reading Four days in a row!
Ok I am starting to see the merits of flower gardening. Although I am now wracked with guilt as the flower seedlings have come closer in the green family circle and are now considered precious green babies. Which is a long way from the recent relationship of distant relatives, twice removed, from the wrong side of the tracks. And treated as such. We can thank … Continue reading Wow – Veggies don’t do that!
