And for me there was no dirty hands plunged into a weedy soil, and I didn’t even get to pick up a screwdriver to build a greenhouse. There were things from the garden in our dinner as per the rule: “something from the garden in every meal’ – however it was all from the freezer so I didn’t even need to put my gumboots on … Continue reading Gardening can take on many forms.
It is official, the season has begun. Woo Hooo, Hooray, YaY and all those other celebratory words that are just too difficult to spell! I squeezed some time into my busy schedule that if I waited for an opening would have happened maybe sometime in mid-November. So I decided, enough was enough with the busyness – my seeds need to come first. The first thing … Continue reading There are seeds in the soil!
Very soon – like in days – I’ll be sowing my first seeds of the season and I’m really excited. However I have been meaning to test the viability of some of the seeds I sorted out recently, but the strawberries completely stole all my attention. Then while doing an extraordinary amount of waiting for an appointment, I could only get my gardening fix from … Continue reading Not long now.
It has been unseasonably warm and I found myself in a tee shirt – in the middle of winter! Mind you I was working pretty hard. Slightly panicked by the thought of July having almost passed us by in the blink of an eye, I seem to be looking at what is left on the list. However I really should stop and reflect on how … Continue reading How is it July is nearly over?
With the new season rapidly approaching, and seed raising just a few weeks from commencing with the most sensitive peppers and chillies being the first seeds to be immersed in warm damp soil, I thought I’d better sort things out. I started by browsing seed catalogues and online seed lists to see what was new and what I wanted to grow, but then realised as … Continue reading Is Two Hundred and Ten seed packets too many?
I have had a lovely time. Hubby the Un-Gardener took the boys away camping to make the most of the summer before… well we won’t dwell on the coming months. It’s still summer and that’s all that counts. I miss them very much, but to garden uninterrupted is such a pleasure. So I indulged myself in all things gardening. I started out by sowing the … Continue reading How long?!
We are midway through the best summer holiday in years. The main reason is the sun has blessed us with its presence. Last year the break at the beach was memorable because of its absence. In exchange we spent the summer in the company of wind and rain, which was actually a bit dreadful. Coming home to the garden was awful. The warm wet weather … Continue reading The happiest of New Years to you
I keep breaking things! I broke a blueberry, a new tool, broke my budget, broke a nail and very nearly broke Hubby the Un-Gardener! Spring is really starting to kick in, the days are getting much warmer, although a sudden breeze can drop the temperature quite dramatically in a matter of minutes, and we’ve had a couple of frosts. Having learnt from previous years that … Continue reading It’s been a bit of a broken week….
Yesterday was a day of two halves. In the morning is was wet and miserable – with rain drops so fat and heavy that it seemed to come in monsoon proportions. But the ground was already overflowing so the new rainfall just lay on the top of the lawn, with only the tips of the as yet un-mown grass poking through a sea of mud … Continue reading Another Yesterday full of excitement.
I have waited for this moment for such a long time, probably since about October last year. But then again most years it is long a waited – although not as long as I have waited this year. It is so exciting – it’s the start of something new. A new growing season. Today I sowed my first seeds. The peppers, chillies and eggplant. Experience … Continue reading And lastly… The Game is a foot.
