Finally Looked at the Back Bed
This bed at the back of the garden has not really been touched for years and it really…
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Cherries
For a non fruiting cherry tree we are getting quite a lot of cherries this year!
Old Seeds Sowed – Go Away Cat!
The main flower bed in the back garden has not been touched for some months and was starting…
Signs of Potato Flowers
Watering each day and all looking good. Spotted signs of flowers.
The Cat Tries to Stop our Herb Progress!
Everything was looking good, you cannot quite see it here but all rows were showing seedlings. Which means…
Sprouts Planted
We haven’t grown sprouts for years but a good neighbour down the road gave us some the other…
Beans have a slow start
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
Sunflowers planted outside
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Mirrored Passion Flower
Don’t be fooled, this picture is a lot bigger than it actualy is. The two small passion flowers…
Courgette Flowers
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain…
Herbs one week on
It has been a week of mainly clouds and rain and not a lot of sun. I moved…
Potatoes look very healthy
A mixture of sun, warm weather, and now rain, it has been a good couple of weeks for…
Courgettes grow grow grow
These are going very well indeed, infact since this photo was taken there are now the small forms…
Runner Beans at Last
Not much growing success with runner beans this year, all a bit strange. The ones I planted outside…
Herbs in grow bags
This is something I spotted in BBC Gardners World magazine last year and it has taken until now…
Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes
A number of the plum tomatoes from the kit have been repotted. We are now a house full…
Wild Wild Strawberries
These are like little rubies in a sea of green leaves. The wild strawberries are fruiting and while…
Sweetpeas planted
These are of Cornish origin, the seed is a number of years old, but each year they give…
Butternut Squash Planted Out
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking…
Bean Poles Erected!
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
End of May is Good
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
Dust bin lid Can-o-Worms
Forget the “shower cap” you can buy from Wiggly Wigglers, it is hard to put on and it…
Earthing up Potatoes
A mixture of bad weather and a lot of late nights from work has meant that we have…
Blackcurrent has had a better time
This is a rather sad picture of the blackcurrent bush. I don’t quite know what is going wrong…
The Wild Bit
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May 2009
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
Tomatoes Tomatoes and a Flickr Find!
These are doing all very nice, all the millions that we have! As it happens, I found a…
Butternut Squash with BBC DigIn
The other week I noticed on the CBeebies website that Tom and Jack spend quite some time on…
First Rhuburb 09
Yum, our first pickings this year and it went very well with crumble and custard! Tom and Jack…
I Worry about the Sunflowers
I made a mistake and positioned this seed tray in the bedroom where I thought there would be…
Chillies and Peppers Looking Good
These were repotted a couple of weeks ago and I have since kept them in the south facing…
Courgettes from Freecycle and Killing Slugs
I saw courgette plants offered on our local Freecycle and so asked to have a couple and here…
We have this bit of concrete…
… in the corner of the garden that once had a shed on it. Unfortunatly the previous owners…
Rooster Potatoes Planted
I read my notes from last year and we left it a bit late for planting potatoes and…
Bad Fence
We have a nice area of decking, we can sit at the table, we can see the Clematis…
Dandelions Dandelions
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
Chillies and Peppers Repotted
These have been growing on the window sill for a little while and they are in desperate need…
Lavender Trimmed and New Plants Added
The other week I mentioned that really I woud like to replace the lavender as it had got…
Wild Strawberry Flowers
These Wild Strawberries are fantastic! I bought four plants the other year, two survived (not helped by the…
Sunflowers of all types
While the tomato plants are doing really well, the giant sunflowers and sweet peas have yet to show. …
Great Lavender Flowers
This is the BBC Garderners World lavender, just one of the five plants that we have had for…
A Bit of Life in the Passion Flower
These are the BBC Gardners World passion flowers that I sent off for last year just before the…
At Last We See The Flowering Clematis
The first year we never saw any flowers as we planted it late in the year, the second…
Lavender Ready for Renewal?
This has taken quite a bit of rough treatment over the years, even more so when we got…
Clematis Clematis
We have had rain for a couple of days, quite light and broken which has meant it has…
Planting Seeds Over Easter
What to do when the Easter holiday weekend starts with pouring rain all day? I decided to see…
Fuschia comes back for a new year
More signs that a new year is just beginning, spring is here. Last year I picked up a…
Blueberry Buds
Last year we had two blueberries from this bush. It was its first year so I was not…
Fingers Cross for Gooseberries
We had little success with the two gooseberry bushes last year, the leaves seemed to get eaten over…
Apple Tree coming into Leaf
I noticed one or two buds starting to show some leaf which means in a couple of days…