I have slaved away in the garden and have evicted all weeds, mowed all the grass, and harvest so much fabulous food that I can barely lift my fingers to type. Luckily a picture is worth a thousand words so this should technically be my longest post EVER! Come again soon… so much has happened and I have so much to tell you – I … Continue reading I’m too tired for words…
I spend all winter dreaming of my perfect garden. I put things in place to improve on last year. Mistakes were learnt from. I carefully selected seeds and dug sodden, cold dirt and carefully removed all trace of weed so this one would be the best season ever. The plants are planted with care and start to really get going and there is a hint … Continue reading Someone stuck a festive period in the middle of my growing season.
I have been dreadfully preoccupied lately, mostly in the garden, dealing with things. I feel like the little boy sticking his fingers in the dyke, plugging new leaks. Although it is often not stopping leaks but creating them as I have been watering the garden based on which bed needs it most, gets it first. The same goes for the weeding. I really need to … Continue reading Sunshine and Sweethearts
Oh my gosh, what has happened to a large chunk of my life? Oh I know – it has been lost in the garden with days and days of endless toil, falling into bed late at night too exhausted to lift a finger and type a single letter! After losing a few weeks to illness, and then some more trying to get back on top … Continue reading Three weeks have gone in the blink of an eye
The calendar has changed to October and overnight things seem different. The temperatures are noticeably warmer, the dreadful wind and rain of the past months – for all intents and purposes seem behind us and the freshly cut grass smells sweet, the birds are over enthusiastically chirping in the trees and the blossom petals are falling like confetti at a party. There is a new … Continue reading What better way to ring in the warmer weather – than in style.
It’s the kind of wind and rain that would make an average winter day really miserable. But here I am inside in the heat – it’s still hot and really muggy, and I’m doing the happy dance at the sight puddles in the driveway. The kids will need raincoats on their first day back at school in what seems like an eternity. The summer holidays … Continue reading I never thought I’d say this but… Yay it’s raining!
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
Boy I have been working really hard in the garden. After I considered and then quickly discarded the idea of hiring a bulldozer, I sat down and wrote myself a list – a very long list, of all it would take to return my garden to a state I could be proud of and in the process restore my passion. It has taken what feels … Continue reading Finally order has been restored.
We had a freak wind rip into the garden today, bringing with it some nasty rain. The wind jostled all my corn but worst of all was what it did to my tomatoes. This year, at great expense, I upgraded my tomato stakes from bamboo to fancy wooden ones that were supposed to last for years. I’ll bet you can see where this is going…. … Continue reading This summer is beginning to push me to my limits!
Having a holiday in the middle of the growing season is possibly the craziest thing that happens to gardener. But we all do it. – Well most of us. We set up irrigation systems to make things easy for the minder and offer any veggie that come ripe to the temporary caretakers of our seasons work. But the only person who is truly passionate about … Continue reading Sometimes I ask myself why I bother gardening…. Alternative title: A joyful return from holiday.
