Sector 4 is all fruit so no planning needed there – all I have to do before the season changes is evict the aging three year old strawberries and replace them with their offspring runners to keep the production of delicious berries at an optimum. So that leaves the back row that forms sector 5. If you take the two raspberry beds (27 and 28) … Continue reading Garden Planning – the Final Push
Sector three was once the outer edge of the garden. I’m not entirely sure how it has become part of the heart of the garden, but I think I may need a fence. I’m really pleased with my sector systems as it helps break down my large garden on so many levels – weeding, watering and feeding a sector a day makes the insurmountable achievable. … Continue reading Planning the Garden – Sector 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
And all through the garden Not a weed was stirring not even tbe dock And the vines were staked and tied In hopes that red tomatoes would soon be here The potatoes were asleep in their bed As visions of mint sauce danced in my head The garden has been given its final once over. There is now no time to linger, not even for … Continue reading Twas just days before Christmas
My lettuce is growing well. You may have remembered from way back that I grew some salad from seed and lovingly nurtured them and planted them into my garden and built a wee fence to keep the chickens out and put down some slug bait to keep them even safer and they were doing grand. Then it rained and the little blue pellets washed away … Continue reading Imposter plants
While it may have been warmish for a winter evening the other night, last night was definitely cooler and foggy, but its still not proper cold and all my plants are confused. I did a wee wander around looking for something to do and guess what I found… Raspberries and strawberries – what the??? These plants are supposed to be long since dormant. How can … Continue reading I think the winter is toying with us.
I don’t know why I read the weather forecast and expect it to be true, because it never is. The boffins are probably in their office with some kind weather map that they throw darts at so they can figure out what to tell us each day. To give them a little bit of credit the sunshine they promised was there in the morning with … Continue reading I’ve been lied to…
But it took a lot of hard work and I’m pretty knackered. So it’s now safe to say I am fully over my melodramatic outburst of the other day. In fact let’s just pretend the whole sorry episode never happened. After a mow and some hard work the garden is now looking like something to be proud of. I’ve pruned and tied in my wayward … Continue reading Good news, I have fallen back in love with my garden
For the last week it has been windy and raining with heaps of scary thunder and lightning. The ground went all soggy and boggy. Then finally the clouds cleared – well enough to create the illusion of an end to it all and we even got a beautiful rainbow to show that it was all over. So there was one thing for it. It was … Continue reading Rain – it’s never there when you need it!
