Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
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Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
I thought the day would never come! We have had these plum tomato plants for months now and…
Summer time is here, yeah!!! It seems that the whole country is suffering from really bad thunder storms…
This bed at the back of the garden has not really been touched for years and it really…
For a non fruiting cherry tree we are getting quite a lot of cherries this year!
The main flower bed in the back garden has not been touched for some months and was starting…
Watering each day and all looking good. Spotted signs of flowers.
Everything was looking good, you cannot quite see it here but all rows were showing seedlings. Which means…
We haven’t grown sprouts for years but a good neighbour down the road gave us some the other…
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Don’t be fooled, this picture is a lot bigger than it actualy is. The two small passion flowers…
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain…
It has been a week of mainly clouds and rain and not a lot of sun. I moved…
A mixture of sun, warm weather, and now rain, it has been a good couple of weeks for…
These are going very well indeed, infact since this photo was taken there are now the small forms…
Not much growing success with runner beans this year, all a bit strange. The ones I planted outside…
This is something I spotted in BBC Gardners World magazine last year and it has taken until now…
A number of the plum tomatoes from the kit have been repotted. We are now a house full…
These are like little rubies in a sea of green leaves. The wild strawberries are fruiting and while…
These are of Cornish origin, the seed is a number of years old, but each year they give…
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking…
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
Forget the “shower cap” you can buy from Wiggly Wigglers, it is hard to put on and it…
A mixture of bad weather and a lot of late nights from work has meant that we have…
This is a rather sad picture of the blackcurrent bush. I don’t quite know what is going wrong…
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
These are doing all very nice, all the millions that we have! As it happens, I found a…
The other week I noticed on the CBeebies website that Tom and Jack spend quite some time on…
Yum, our first pickings this year and it went very well with crumble and custard! Tom and Jack…
I made a mistake and positioned this seed tray in the bedroom where I thought there would be…
These were repotted a couple of weeks ago and I have since kept them in the south facing…
I saw courgette plants offered on our local Freecycle and so asked to have a couple and here…
… in the corner of the garden that once had a shed on it. Unfortunatly the previous owners…
I read my notes from last year and we left it a bit late for planting potatoes and…
We have a nice area of decking, we can sit at the table, we can see the Clematis…
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
These have been growing on the window sill for a little while and they are in desperate need…
The other week I mentioned that really I woud like to replace the lavender as it had got…
These Wild Strawberries are fantastic! I bought four plants the other year, two survived (not helped by the…
While the tomato plants are doing really well, the giant sunflowers and sweet peas have yet to show. …
This is the BBC Garderners World lavender, just one of the five plants that we have had for…
These are the BBC Gardners World passion flowers that I sent off for last year just before the…
The first year we never saw any flowers as we planted it late in the year, the second…
This has taken quite a bit of rough treatment over the years, even more so when we got…
We have had rain for a couple of days, quite light and broken which has meant it has…
What to do when the Easter holiday weekend starts with pouring rain all day? I decided to see…
More signs that a new year is just beginning, spring is here. Last year I picked up a…