Friday, September 3rd, 2010
I now have a comments function. Please feel free to leave me a message at the bottom. I stepped out this morning with my coffee, my feet in Birkenstocks with socks on (someone please save me from myself!!) and my pajamas on. I looked this way and that and tried to capture this moment of [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
I now have a comments function. Leave your comment/question at the end of every post! On Sunday night, as the rain lashed against the windows, I asked myself if it really was the end of Summer. I’m not so sure it is. I often get caught out like this. I assume the long hot days [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
It’s a lovely thing to pick vegetables with a baby, one of your own babies, strapped to your front. I walked around the paddock the other day and harvested some of our fabulous veggies for supper that night. It was the first proper meal I’d made since bringing the babies home. Due to my C-Section [...]
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Very new babies sleep an awful lot, don’t they? They sleep a lot more than I thought they would. When they are asleep there always seem to be things to do before they wake up for the next feed. Tidying up (not getting a whole lot of that done, I’ll be honest). Cooking and eating [...]
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
To follow on from yesterdays paddock update we wanted to show you some of the things that we have been growing in it. There’s nothing quite like that feeling of satisfaction when you grow your own fruit and veg and the crop you produce is actually pretty decent. This year we are growing quite a [...]
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Today we’re taking you through building your own climbing frame for any peas or beans that you may be growing this year. Climbing vegetables need a frame to grow up as they can get to quite a height and need the support. Note: The size of your climbing bean frame will depend on the size [...]
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
We’ve been out in the paddock for most of this week. I say “we” Jodie and Cathy have been out there for the duration, I have popped out occasionally to make it seem like I still have something to offer in my ‘beached’ state but mostly I’ve been on the sofa, writing posts for the [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
I have decided not plant potatoes in any of the raised beds but instead to plant them in bags on the terrace. I am very lucky as I have a large garden but I have also lived in an apartment and a house with a small garden so I want to do something that those [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
On the 16th of March the first covers came off the raised beds as we prepared them for planting. I decided to sow climbing garden peas in this bed. The bed was given a good rake over as this allowed air back in to the soil after a Winter of being under plastic. You can [...]
Friday, April 9th, 2010
This year has been so strange as everything in the garden is super late due to the prolonged cold spell. Well it feels like it is super late anyway. This is the circular bed in my front drive and last Summer, in the month of June, it looked like this….. Then last September, after all [...]