With the weather being so horrible lately with more rain than we know what to do with, I decided to go back over my previous posts from the same time of year to see what, in an ideal season, I’d be doing right now. Click into 2015: Spring is in full swing In 2015 it was extraordinarily windy and I was cursing it and it’s … Continue reading Spring back in time
However, on our recent trip to Rainbows End amusement park it had been decorated for the season and I couldn’t help myself taking a few pictures. Especially as many of the displays had a bit of a gardening theme. I loved what they had done. Meanwhile – back to the digging…. Come again soon – I think we have had our last cold snap…I … Continue reading We don’t really do Halloween
The garden has been calling to me persistently like a sea siren to a pirate. Sometimes the most I can do is to stare longingly back at the garden as it calls to me, as life beyond the garden shouts louder and more aggressively with its demands. But some days I am free to frolic in the depths of its green gloriousness. Having said … Continue reading A Currant Affair
After a busy period I finally got to spend an entire day in the garden and it was wonderful. It was my birthday wish, and it didn’t disappoint. The first half of the day was spent mowing around the garden. The little ditty “Spring has sprung, the grass has rizz, I wonder where the lawn mower is…” is so true. I haven’t had time to … Continue reading Weed into a bucket and other observations from the garden
This is not a lot of help for my poor neglected garden, especially with the Big Day so close. This Labour Weekend is the date where it is deemed safe from frost, however this is also a moveable holiday so it doesn’t really help aside from having a free Monday attached to the end of it. It is the day gardeners across the nation dig … Continue reading I’ve been away… again.
Sometimes in the garden you have to make difficult choices. Take my fennel for example. It seems to be like some kind of crop in my garden where it doesn’t seem to want to stop. New bulbs seem to form around the base from plants sown last spring. I’m tempted to leave it there to see what it will do, but it has a place … Continue reading Out with the Old … In with the New
I have been feverishly slaving away over the garden. My hands have that roughness that comes from working the soil without gloves. I know I should use gloves but – well… I always end up taking them off to do something – like scratch my nose and they never go back on again. My back is a little achey from a lot of digging, but … Continue reading 8 to go
At this time of year there is so much going on and it is all new and fresh. Many little things need a lot of care and attention and others are just part of the bigger picture. I love watching the wee ones unfurl and spring into life. And we can’t forget my onions… however this is only a small selection of what is going … Continue reading Watching over tiny things
With the wind on my back I have been working hard getting the garden shipshape. There has been and extraordinary amount of digging and weeding being done so I can get things ready for the big day – the safe from frost day. But at the same time I’m nurturing a flock? herd? swarm? thicket? school of seedlings? What is the collective term for seedlings? … Continue reading Spring is in full swing
Ok. I’m taking my second foray into the world of flower growing. Last season saw me build a bed for the sole purpose of having cut flowers. It was a brilliant idea. I figured if I treated them as a crop then I would have greater chance of having beautiful flowers to have, hold and give away. I even bought some lovely vases with the … Continue reading Flowers: now what are they all about?
