Snowdrops
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
Author: Steve
Rain rain rain
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
Rain Rain Rain…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
Christmas New Potatoes
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
Christmas New Potatoes
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
December 2009
Just the other day all this was under a load of snow! It lasted a couple of days…
It is Finally Tree O’ Clock
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for…
Christmas Potatoes
Checking on the Christmas potatoes shows very spindly plants. These have had to put up with a lot,…
Stormy November
Don’t be fooled by the sun shiny, November has been a month of rain rain and rain, with…
Mile a Minute Reaches for the Sky
There is a short story behind the Mile A Minute planted on the back fence and taking over…
Saving Beans
Beans, they are so easy to grow and so nice to eat. At the end of the growing…
Chamomile After Transplanting
I took cuttings of plants from another person’s garden (with their permission I may add) the other month. …
Rain Damage
One minute a bush of blue looking all proud, and then the rain came! Over night it pounded…
New shoots at the nic of time!
I took some cuttings of some daisy type plants the other week. Actually, less of a cutting and…
Always Time for Sunflowers
An autumn display of sunflowers, they are now starting to go multi-headed too! Each year they put on…
Some Tiny Plum Tomatoes
Our normal bad crop of tomatoes this year did not disappoint, we had the same expected rubbish crop! …
Christmas Potatoes Showing
I was quite surprised the other day when I took a look and noticed green shoots of the…
Pale Sunflowers
It is late September and the sunflowers are having one last go, I am sure they will keep…
Courgette Goo
I talked about making a chocolate cake with courgette as one of the ingredients back at sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/chocolate-courgettes/ I…
Monster Courgettes
I like courgettes but sometime you have just a bit too much. It seems that the courgette plant…
Sedium Cuttings
Someone allowed me to take some cuttings from their garden and so I had a couple of snips…
Lavender Pruned
From something rather overgrown to something a much neater. I had to cut into the wood a bit…
September 2009
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
Ladybird ladybird…
Tom spotted a little lady bird walking about a bit lost on the driveway, so he picked her…
Flowers in September
It is noticeable that the evenings are darker and the mornings are colder, but we have the sunflowers…
Not Too Tall – Not Too Big
The sunflowers in the front garden are giving some colour now that other plants are starting to die…
Along Comes the Wind
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind…
Baby Peppers
Are they peppers or rather strange looking chillies? We had both types of plant, but I forgot which…
Eight Runner Beans Plants Too Much?
Our first harvest of runner beans took place a number of weeks ago. We are now under constant…
The Wild Sunflowers 2009!
Gardening can be fun but often is a lot of hard work, but all the hard work mostly…
Green Plum Tomatoes
Our tomatoes have not done that well this year, a bit like last year and the year before. …
Digging the Potatoes 2009
It is such a long term project, you plant them and then you wait and wait and wait. …
Chocolate Cosmos
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last…
Summer Time Flowers
These look just so great and is what I have tried to make the garden be all about,…
Amaranthus Points the Way
Last year I had never heard of Amaaranthus until I bought some seed and had a go at…
Sweet Potatoes Slowly Grow
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the…
Plums everywhere apart from on the tree!
I was so delighted the other month to find out out that our non flowering cherry tree had…
July 2009
The bad weather has taken its toll a bit, although now that has stopped and we are back…
Beans and Snails
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
Alan Titchmarsh Regional Report – August 09
For some months now I have been using the various blog postings I have made here to string…
Poppies
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
White Fuschia
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
Worms Re-visited
It is time to revisit the wormary. I am more than pleased with how things are going, ever…
A Cherry Tree with Plums
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring…
Wild Sunflowers
This is one of the two wild sunflowers that popped up this year. They are not the tallest…
Sprouts off to a good start
These had a bit of a shaky start but have now settled in well. The sprout plants are…
The Day of the Herbs
So no more cats have dug up the herbs and really if they wanted to know they would…
Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
Tomato Flowers are Here
I thought the day would never come! We have had these plum tomato plants for months now and…
Snapshot June 09
Summer time is here, yeah!!! It seems that the whole country is suffering from really bad thunder storms…