There is nothing like having a garden group come to visit the garden to ensure it is in tip top condition for their arrival. So I have been working ever so hard to make the garden lovely. The grass was mowed, I tidied the greenhouse and the shed and I even tidied behind it, not that anyone looked, but they might have! I even incurred … Continue reading Looking Good
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 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 is amazing how good you feel when you get a hard job done, and you have been putting it off for ages and finally you do a proper job and end up body sore, but when you look at all you have achieved you feel great. Well that’s how I feel. My poor old raspberries have had a hard life. I started … Continue reading Raspberries – Done!
My arms and hands are so sore I can barely raise my fingers to type out the letters. I spent a good three hours weeding the raspberries. I made great progress and nearly made it all the way to the end of the row. I was interrupted by the rumbling in my tummy, so I went inside for lunch and once I sat down my … Continue reading So close…
I didn’t do anything in the garden for two main reasons. Number one – The temperature dropped quite dramatically. We have been used to a quite balmy 15°C average so far through most of the winter and when the sun comes out it can even be considered warm. However we had a fog that never really lifted, or if it did, it just revealed a … Continue reading Things to do in the garden
Today has been a huge day in the garden in more ways than one. I put in some hard yakka, but there was also an emotional edge to my time with my hands in the soil. Last year I asked the family to dig me a flower garden for mother’s day so I could fill it with loads of pretty things that smell nice. However … Continue reading Looking towards the future while remembering the past.
The first day held a lot of promise, the sun was shining, there was a light breeze, but the temperatures were still a little cool, and instead of hiding in the shade from the heat of the sun, everyone wanted to be in its rays to bask in its warmth. The second day was windy and grey that turned into that rain that isn’t really … Continue reading The new summer is treating us well – NOT!
I am almost there. There is only one bed left to sow. Everything else is planted and sown. All the beds are full and should be displaying a “No Vacancy” sign. Although most beds don’t look full as the seedlings are still quite small and are surrounded by a sea of soil. As a beginner gardener I would have taken care of this and crammed … Continue reading I’ve bean procrastinating!
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
