I have to say it is taking all my inner strength not to load post after post complaining about the weather. So, I have been looking for the bright side. Finding up beat and exciting things to share. Doing things to bring sunshine into my world like making lemon honey, the joy of sowing seeds and taking a disproportionate number of photos on the rare … Continue reading Sod it!
We are now just passed the middle of the middle of summer. Although strangely enough the weather in the first half of summer is always a bit rubbish and the second half is generally much more settled. But we tend to get it all wrong – the holidays are in the first half and the kids go back to school in the second… But anyway, … Continue reading OK Garden – what can you teach me?
I’d love to say all is hunky dory down in my garden however – that would be a delusion. It is one thing to have a wonderful garden that is bursting into life and on the verge of delivering some goodness to our plates and larder, but to have a period of holiday smack bang in the middle is so conflicting. Don’t get me … Continue reading The festive season is encroaching on my garden!
I’m quite pleased with my routine schedule for the garden. In the past, I’d wander around aimlessly until I found a chore that needed doing, couldn’t be ignored anymore or was really easy and there was no real focus. The garden felt like an endless chore sometimes as by the time you look care of the weeds in the last bed, the first one was … Continue reading Sector Two
Oh I was in my element today. I got to spend the day in the garden, completely uninterrupted and without the need to rush. I just pottered about the place at an unhurried pace and enjoyed every single moment. While it looks like there is a lot to be done in the garden, all of the work I put in before I had my wee … Continue reading Let the season begin.
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
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
Today is the shortest day and I guess you could say it is technically the first day of the new season as it is the day for the first crops that will be harvested this year to go in. Fortunately the sun was shining weakly on this cold winter day which made a nice change from the previous day where it was raining so desperately … Continue reading Think I’m going to run out of room
I have had mixed success over the years, with each lesson learnt the hard way until I got to the point when I knew what I was doing and started to get a bit smart… you can see where this is going… I learnt that they really don’t like competition from weeds during the year that it got weedy quite early in the season and … Continue reading Not all onions are the same… apparently.
The brief: Capture the natural world with your camera. Look for natural lines that lead our eyes to different parts of a frame. OK. this is my kind of theme. I am in the natural world all day – rain permitting! I constantly have a camera with me and several have suffered a sad demise as the dirt made it’s way into the zoomy bit … Continue reading PHOTO DAY 8: The Natural World
