Ok I am starting to see the merits of flower gardening. Although I am now wracked with guilt as the flower seedlings have come closer in the green family circle and are now considered precious green babies. Which is a long way from the recent relationship of distant relatives, twice removed, from the wrong side of the tracks. And treated as such. We can thank … Continue reading Wow – Veggies don’t do that!
My garden has suffered greatly at the hands of the weather. But the seasonal pull of summer is starting to make its influence felt. We have had three nice days in a row and the boffins have put 6 more shiny sunny images on its 10 day forecast. I think in this instance I will chose to believe them! It seems reasonable enough – the … Continue reading Rusty Garlic
Today is such a different day from yesterday. It is so hard to get your head around how different things can be in such a short space of time. Which was just as well it was a nice day as there was a lot going on today and very little of it was in the garden. I was able to go out and have a … Continue reading Hardly a breath of wind
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.
… are done. Continue reading The strawberries …
I finally got to the last BIG task on my list. The strawberries. The sun was shining, I got my inside jobs done early and I was out in that garden so fast, ready and willing to get stuck into a big job. And it is a big job – I have about 70 or so strawberries that haven’t even so much as been looked … Continue reading Take your old ones out, put your new ones in, and shake it all about.
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?
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.
It’s hot. I mean really hot. We are officially in a drought. The boffins have number crunched and apparently January normally gets about 60mm of rain, I guess that’s why looking back over past summers all I remember is dashed expectations of a “proper summer.” Well this year we are having that magic kind of summer – long and hot! But they say that we … Continue reading My garden doesn’t need me… sob sob sob
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…
