The long cold winter has finally passed. Oh and what a cold and horrible nasty winter… NOT! Oh my goodness. It was so mild. We had two frosts – at most so a lot of the soil diseases may still be lurking in the warm damp earth. It rained a lot, but once again not as much as it should have. In fact I had … Continue reading HOORAY HOORAY! IT’S A SPRING DAY!
Aside from the green of the grass and the grey sky, there isn’t too much colour going on in my winter world. Sometimes we do get those incredible blue sky days where everything looks like is part of some grand jewel collection. But for the most part it grey and bleak. Even most of the winter veggies are cloaked in green, except the brilliant red … Continue reading On a grey day sunshine can be found in strange places.
And I still haven’t finished planting out the garden. I feel like I am in some kind of race against time to get it all done. Most of the time the weather is my friend and it is warm and sunny, but we get these occasional spring showers that blow in from what seems like nowhere, dumps its load and disappears as quickly as it … Continue reading There are only 16 days left in spring…
Last night I was too tired to even lift my fingers to the keyboard. I have been toiling frantically for two days solid. I have sore tummy muscles from all the digging (although strangely all the chubby-too-much-cake stuff is still there – I should have a decent 6 pack for all the aching going on!) My nails are chipped and the dirt has worked its … Continue reading So incredibly knackered…
It has been about five years since we began out rural adventure and one of the first things I did was purchase a lemon tree and planted it in orchard area. As the orchard filled with all manner of fruiting tree, my citrus collection also grew. I added grapefruit, lemonade, mandarin, tangelo and a lime. I have since found out citrus don’t like wet feet! … Continue reading I had a little lemon tree…
I never in a million years would be guessed that I would be pleased to see rain, so soon after the recent weeks of heavy rain and sodden soil. But I am. Just a few short weeks ago we were having the worst spring rain. The ground was so soggy that it would only take a half hour shower to cause water to lie on … Continue reading The sweet blessing of rain.
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….
The sun shined almost all day today. Once I was forced to shelter in the greenhouse and the other time the drops were so fat I thought that is was probably set in for the day so I came inside, scrubbed up and made a cuppa tea. Then I looked out the window to see blue sky again. This is the craziest weather. The boffins … Continue reading A weed by any other name
Don’t panic, this isn’t going to be a story of dread, terror and frenzied destruction. Dawn broke this morning on to what I hope will be a perfect day as this day is special. It’s not any old day – it’s the first day of spring. The seasons have changed and this is the season of new life. It’s the season that gardening can begin … Continue reading Goats love Kale.
When I loaded the last story I found on my camera a load of photos that I had taken in anticipation of a full and exciting blog and then promptly forgot all about them. So I feel it is only right to give these photos their fifteen minutes of fame! The first and carefully staged photo is when I made the most incredible lemon honey. … Continue reading When life gives you lemons…
