Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Hello! If you are thinking about growing anything then you couldn’t start with an easier vegetable than Rhubarb. It actually needs very little attention but of course, as with most things, if you go the extra mile with it you’ll get much better results. It’s fantastic for cooking and baking with and rewards you year [...]
Monday, February 21st, 2011
During the Winter I spend a lot more time on the house and housey things than I do in the garden. For obvious reasons. The garden is hibernating, dormant, and not pretty to look at unless covered in a blanket of snow or dusted with frost. The house is much more inviting and cosy. But [...]
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 21st, 2010
So, it would seem that when I was away having babies the Paddock here at the house was busy growing and becoming irresistible to hang out in. This is what the space looked like last July. We’ve been working on it, on and off, for the past year and now it is starting to take [...]
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 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 [...]
