I am determined not to moan about the weather this year, but to be honest it leaves me no choice. We got home on the 4th of Jan, and it has done nothing but rain or be gloomy and bleak. To be fair yesterday was nice and today was nice-ish, but the weather is closing in as cyclone Hale is heading our way. Hopefully it … Continue reading Caught between two storms
Finally, I can put down my trowel and stop lying awake at night worrying about the increasingly leggy plants growing in pots rapidly becoming too small. Everything that can be or needs to be, has been planted into the garden. The beds and my heart are full. The garden is done, and it looks wonderful. I don’t know what it was about this spring. It … Continue reading All Planted Out
We are still in summer, repeat after me ‘we are still in summer’. It is becoming a little bit hard to believe right now. After the rain eventually came there has been a perceivable shift in the way things feel. That dry crispness that you feel underfoot when you walk across the lawn is gone. Most mornings there is now a bit of a dew … Continue reading Capturing Summer
There has been an imperceptible shift in the garden. Up until this point I feel like I have been managing tender young seedlings, doing what I can to nurture them into independence. They have been scrawny, scrappy and poorly and several even died. I replaced a few, more than once, to ensure the garden matched the plan I drew up during the long cold winter … Continue reading Change Comes Quickly
I have a bed in my garden set aside for all that is interesting and unusual. It is my fun bed where I can try things out. Although it does seem to have given over a bit of space to tomatoes and peppers that couldn’t fit in their garden and I just couldn’t be without them. In my odds and sods garden this year – … Continue reading So that’s what you do with Okra…
The kids have finally gone back to school and the weather has naturally turned to being the ideal summer weather. It happens every year. Iffy weather prevents the kids getting into really enjoying the summer holidays and then they go back to school and it is perfect! But to be fair we did have some nice days in January. And so far in February we … Continue reading I think there has been a misunderstanding: I wanted pickles not prickles!
