Spring is due to start very soon and I am so excited, but there isn’t all that much for me to do. In my drive to clear all the beds over the winter, it has left me with not a lot to do. Experience has taught me not to get over enthusiastic with the seeds as they all have their special time to rise and … Continue reading This is a strange time indeed
Sowing the seeds of love, we’re off to a seedy start, I’ve sowed the seeds to a new season… I could go on, the clichés are endless! Entering into August puts us one month closer to spring and the weather is beginning to play with us. One week it is warm and sunny and we haven’t had any heating on in the house for a … Continue reading Some ideas on Pinterest may seem like a good idea at the time…
I have continued on my quest to ensure I get things done in the garden every day. Although yesterday was a bit of a technicality as I purchased things for the garden rather than actually worked in it. I normally grow my daffodils and other spring bulbs in a multitude of buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. For a cost conscious gardener this is … Continue reading Scooping soil with a spoon
It is all very dramatic in my garden. Actually it’s not that dramatic. Just as I was getting on top of everything and feeling on top of the world, I had a bit of a reality check. When you have delightful school age kids they bring home all sorts of lovely things – artwork, certificates, permission slips, friends and they are all very welcome. But … Continue reading A plague and an explosion!
I have been busy recording the garden before it all gets planted out… having said that I probably should have been digging as there is still a lot to do. I hope you enjoy the video. Come again soon – I’ll be the exhausted one who will have hopefully finished all the digging, weeding and planting! Sarah the Gardener : o ) Continue reading Check out my latest You Tube video…
We have had storm after storm after storm. When it wasn’t raining, it was blowing a gale and either way gardening was impossible. Add that to being knocked out for a good three weeks to ill health and the garden is way behind schedule. The last frost day is in about ten days and I am not ready! Whose idea was it to have such … Continue reading This has been the spring of my discontent.
…well maybe I’ll throw in a couple more rainbow beets as not all the colours have come out, but aside from that everything in the greenhouse is all there is going to be this season. Oh except for the beans and the corn which will be sown directly once the risk of frost has past – and I’ve weeded their beds. Oh and the successional … Continue reading Well that’s it – the last seeds have been sown.
I should really remember it every year as a hard month, but my enthusiasm and sheer determination tends to make me forget that I have the same struggle every year. September – the middle spring month is just yucky. It is always stormy and windy and rainy and soggy and boggy and really hard work. But the thing is – it is an uphill battle … Continue reading This is the last day of the worst month of spring.
Gosh it was so hard to sort out my crop rotation – I nearly worked up a sweat! Actually no – it was so simple. A couple of years ago I came up with a three pronged crop rotation system that gets all the crops to be moved along, while gaining or creating value for the plants before and after it. I think I have … Continue reading The start of daylight savings is a great time to rotate crops.
It feels like something has been missing as I set about getting my garden spring ready. Each time I do something the words formulate in my head and I instantly reach for my camera. And then I’m like – “oh yeah – I’m on a break.” Well not any more. You didn’t think I’d be able to stay away for long did you? As we … Continue reading Gardening without blogging doesn’t feel right!
