Heroes and Superstars. The garden has really been pumping out the harvest. Everyday there is something new to deal with, on top of the things already overwhelming my harvest basket. It can be so easy to just take yet another zucchini for granted or leave it languishing on the plant a little longer in an obstinate attempt to delay the inevitable, which ultimately results in … Continue reading Heroes and Superstars
I have been rather busy lately. I am fortunate in that my workloads and deadlines haven’t changed and writing about gardening is just as popular as it ever was. So, I have been tucked away in my office or creating the supporting imagery to go with the writing. I don’t feel like I have had a spare moment. Even the poor garden is feeling a … Continue reading The harvest waits for no one
You can always tell it is a good time to harvest your sweetcorn when you notice the rats are getting into it! I have a bit of a rat problem, but I am currently deliberately feeding them with goat food, which they seem to like, based on the very large hole in the goat food container. The goat food is currently being stored in the … Continue reading Storm Pollinated Sweetcorn
As exciting as 2018 was, I’m not all that keen to repeat it. I think you should probably limit the number of dramatic upheavals in a lifetime. Now we have found this beautiful spot and put in all this hard work to get to this point, I am happy to make the call… “this is it.” This will be the place you will find me … Continue reading Looking forward
I tend to be a bit of a creature of habit and once I’m on to a good thing, then I don’t tend to change much and the beds that form the rest of sector one are of the ilk – ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.’ Maybe I’ll do a bit of tweaking in the pepper bed but it is pretty much business … Continue reading Planning the Garden – The Back Row
Finally, the weather blessed us with a fabulous weekend. It was hot, blue sky amazing and perfect for time in the garden. You could almost see the plants breathing a sigh of relief as they stretched out their leaves to receive the full impact of the sun. And of course, I was out there revelling in it too, with a thick layer of sunscreen and … Continue reading Control at last
I’m quite pleased with my routine schedule for the garden. In the past, I’d wander around aimlessly until I found a chore that needed doing, couldn’t be ignored anymore or was really easy and there was no real focus. The garden felt like an endless chore sometimes as by the time you look care of the weeds in the last bed, the first one was … Continue reading Sector Two
Sometimes it is a good idea to look back in time to see how things were at the same period years ago. It is interesting to see four years ago some things were very much the same yet others were so vastly different. My corn is further along this year, but the peaches are still in the trees in both cases, although this year is … Continue reading Blast from the past: When gardening isn’t gardening at all
According to the calendar we are in the middle of summer. I have mixed emotions about this as if half of summer has just gone, then we have been ripped off big time because the weather has been completely rubbish. Although historically the first half has always been rubbish, with the second half of summer coming in with its sweltering heat and blue sky days … Continue reading Smack bang in the middle.
