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 [...]
Friday, June 4th, 2010
So much is happening in the garden at the moment, so much of it it finally coming to life. This was the rose on the front of the house about two weeks ago. It had about three roses blooming on it. And now it’s full and basking in the early summer’s sun first thing in [...]
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
You can read Part 1 of my ‘Growing Dahlias’ saga by clicking on this link. I’ve never grown Dahlias before now and when I pulled the tuber from the box upon delivery I wasn’t sure that any of them would ever amount to anything more than a few shoots. How wrong I was. We’ve ‘lucked [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
When Robert the Husband and I visited the local flower show / fair on our local village green last August I was mightily impressed with the Dahlias on display. So of course I couldn’t wait until March of this year rolled around so that I could get on with growing my own. It’s my first time [...]
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Last Autumn I planted this bed with all sorts of bulbs – Daffs, Narcissus, Ranunculus and Hyacinths. I had previously had lettuces in there as it’s right outside the back door and it made it easier to pop out and pick some as tea time approached. About a month ago the bed was coming up [...]
Friday, April 30th, 2010
This was the view outside of my backdoor early this morning. We have many trays like this, dotted about the place, holding precious plants that will give us a flower filled Summer. Some flowers I am growing from seed and others I have purchased as tiny plug plants. This is a tray of plug plants. [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
It’s very odd in the garden right now. There are flowers blooming that should have bloomed weeks ago. There are trees that are meant to be covered in flowers that haven’t even begun to get busy yet. There are bulbs flowering at the correct time but they look awfully odd next to the flowers that [...]
