Finally, the weather turned to ‘not rainy’ and my schedule cleared up and I could go tree shopping. Only I’ve left it a little late. I knew I had but didn’t realise just how late as all the good stuff was gone. It was my worst fear. Well actually that is an overreaction, but it was rather disappointing. Aside from earlier in the week, I … Continue reading Hunting and Gathering Trees
I have a problem. I want it all and I want it now. But there is an ancient Chinese proverb to support me in my pressing desires. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is now.” Added to the sense of urgency is winter is slipping away. Ordinarily I’d be champing at the bit to have this … Continue reading Getting Fruity
Well it will be soon. I’ve been down to the far end to check out the orchard. Things are looking great for an abundantly fruity summer. Not long now. If I’ve planted things right, we should have fresh fruit right through into the autumn. Let me show you…. We’ve never really had a plum harvest before. I am so excited by the abundance of … Continue reading Everything is just peachy
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 have run out of glass and need to order more. I have to say these greenhouses are really quite simple and logical to put together. I’m really impressed. I was a bit scared putting the glass on the roof, but even that slotted in nicely and there weren’t too many hairy moments. The most tedious bit was washing the glass and getting all the … Continue reading I’ve gone as far as I can go!
… According to Hubby the Un-Gardener. There I was doing my thing completely oblivious to what was going on around me. And he comes along and tells me I should stop and go inside because it was pouring with rain. I looked around and thought “Oh. So it is.” It wasn’t raining when I started. I wanted to tick off number 16 on the list … Continue reading Apparently working in the rain is not what you should do….
With a brief instruction from some lovely lady on a You Tube video, I felt confident enough to give all the lavender a brutal haircut. I’m the kind of person that really needs to see something done so I can understand it, although I was still a little nervous and if it wasn’t for all that new growth coming in at the base I may … Continue reading Snippety snip, chippety chop
It was the most amazing day, blue skies that went forever, not a puff of wind and was even a little warm when you weren’t in the shade. But I had to do my inside book keeping thingy. The kids were making a good job of being free range and feral and making a bit of a mess and so the morning passed quickly. Come … Continue reading You’ll have to take my word for it.
It’s quite funny because I seem to go on about the rain a lot and so anyone would be led to believe it is a very soggy autumn. But alas this is not the case. Since the seasons changed we have only had a couple of decent rainfalls and not really enough to undo all the damage of this summer’s drought. The boffins have proclaimed … Continue reading It’s raining again.
Having a holiday in the middle of the growing season is possibly the craziest thing that happens to gardener. But we all do it. – Well most of us. We set up irrigation systems to make things easy for the minder and offer any veggie that come ripe to the temporary caretakers of our seasons work. But the only person who is truly passionate about … Continue reading Sometimes I ask myself why I bother gardening…. Alternative title: A joyful return from holiday.
