Pruning the Plum Tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer…
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This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer…
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
Just the other day all this was under a load of snow! It lasted a couple of days…
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for…
Checking on the Christmas potatoes shows very spindly plants. These have had to put up with a lot,…
Don’t be fooled by the sun shiny, November has been a month of rain rain and rain, with…
There is a short story behind the Mile A Minute planted on the back fence and taking over…
Beans, they are so easy to grow and so nice to eat. At the end of the growing…
I took cuttings of plants from another person’s garden (with their permission I may add) the other month. …
One minute a bush of blue looking all proud, and then the rain came! Over night it pounded…
I took some cuttings of some daisy type plants the other week. Actually, less of a cutting and…
An autumn display of sunflowers, they are now starting to go multi-headed too! Each year they put on…
Our normal bad crop of tomatoes this year did not disappoint, we had the same expected rubbish crop! …
I was quite surprised the other day when I took a look and noticed green shoots of the…
It is late September and the sunflowers are having one last go, I am sure they will keep…
I talked about making a chocolate cake with courgette as one of the ingredients back at sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/chocolate-courgettes/ I…
I like courgettes but sometime you have just a bit too much. It seems that the courgette plant…
Someone allowed me to take some cuttings from their garden and so I had a couple of snips…
From something rather overgrown to something a much neater. I had to cut into the wood a bit…
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
Tom spotted a little lady bird walking about a bit lost on the driveway, so he picked her…
It is noticeable that the evenings are darker and the mornings are colder, but we have the sunflowers…
The sunflowers in the front garden are giving some colour now that other plants are starting to die…
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind…
Are they peppers or rather strange looking chillies? We had both types of plant, but I forgot which…
Our first harvest of runner beans took place a number of weeks ago. We are now under constant…
Gardening can be fun but often is a lot of hard work, but all the hard work mostly…
Our tomatoes have not done that well this year, a bit like last year and the year before. …
It is such a long term project, you plant them and then you wait and wait and wait. …
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last…
These look just so great and is what I have tried to make the garden be all about,…
Last year I had never heard of Amaaranthus until I bought some seed and had a go at…
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the…
I was so delighted the other month to find out out that our non flowering cherry tree had…
The bad weather has taken its toll a bit, although now that has stopped and we are back…
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
For some months now I have been using the various blog postings I have made here to string…
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
It is time to revisit the wormary. I am more than pleased with how things are going, ever…
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring…
This is one of the two wild sunflowers that popped up this year. They are not the tallest…
These had a bit of a shaky start but have now settled in well. The sprout plants are…
So no more cats have dug up the herbs and really if they wanted to know they would…
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…