Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
If you’re thinking about growing some of your own fruit and vegetables this year then now is the time to get your Broad Beans in to some trays or pots. Broad Beans look like this when they come out of the seed packet. Obviously you should follow their instructions but the easiest way of growing [...]
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The temperature has once again plummeted and I’m thinking about another log delivery for the fire. There we were basking in the relative warmth of 7 degrees over the weekend and now the frost is back over our windscreens. I’m thirty four years of age and should have known that the weather would not just [...]
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
This big bunch of Parsley was picked fresh from my herb garden last year. I bought one Parsley plant and planted it in a HUGE terracotta pot alongside some Sage I already had, Oregano and Marjoram. That pot kept me going throughout many bar-b-q’s and to be honest is still going fairly strong despite being [...]
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
So, it would appear that we’ve been having a wee bit of snow lately! This was the view from inside our garden gate, up the drive and on to the road last week. THERE IS NO ROAD! The snow fell really heavily and weighed down branches of the heaviest trees. Trees fell in to the [...]
Monday, November 9th, 2009
We have some friends in our garden – a Robin called Ian and a Blue Tit called Betsy. Ian is rather awesome actually. He can often be found sitting atop an abandoned log and watching while we garden. He has a nice inquisitive face although he gets a little annoying when he decides to fly [...]