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…
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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…
Tayberry comes back to life for 2009
A Woolworths reject from last year. It did show signs of life last year just before some creature…
April 2009
April is when everything starts to happen. I have mowed the grass once so far this year, it…
Rhubarb 09 is here
This originally came from a friend in Brighton, we put it in the ground one year and have…
Tomatoes are here!
It has taken less than a week for the plum tomato seedlines to show themselves.
Seeds for 2009 Started
These pots of idiot proof seeds were picked up from Wilkingsons for 99p each which seemed like something…
Spring 09 is here?
I noticed the first bit of blossom for the year while I was out seeing how the bulbs…
Febuary 2009
Snow snow snow, then rain rain rain. Last week there garden was under a load of snow, now…
January 2009
Not much going on, everything wet or froozen or a bit of both. Sun low in the sky…
Snowdrops showing
These Snowdrops were part of a BBC Gardners World offer last year and I’m delighted to see that…
There is Rustic and there is ‘Fallen Down’
I think we have moved from looking Rustic to looking Fallen Down and ‘whoops’! The wind and rain…
Rustic looks even more rustic!
The ‘rustic’ looking bit down “the side” is looking a little bit more ‘rustic’ these days. The sweetpeas…
Lavender Cuttings Now 15 Months Old
There was a high casualty rate but I think it has been worth it. From last September, we…
December 2008
Soooo cold! The first time I have been able to do anything in the garden and so I…
Passion Flowers Progress
The BBC Gardners World passion flowers are doing fine outside, the most tender one under a drinks bottle…
November 2008
Rain rain rain rain rain, and a bit more rain. 2008 is much like 2007 was, full of…
BBC Gardener’s World Passion
Another BBC Gardener’s World free offer here, one that I sent off for months and months ago and…
Sunflowers in the front still looking good
Early October and the sunflowers in the front are still looking good. Just as you think it has…
Snapshot October 08
rain rain rain rain rain….. sunflowers still hanging on. The extra grass seed that we planted is starting…
Gardeners World Lavender Potted Outside
I have been meaning to pot these outside for weeks now, each morning they were looking a little…
Wigwams down
It must be autumn, not only are the mornings so dark and depressing, but after last weekend of…
RIP Big Sunflowers
They have been still standing tall but with bowed heads and died flowers for some time. At the…
Autumn Grass Seed
We bought some top soil, the first time ever I had bought it! Normaly I have managed to…
Autumn Flowers
Well, it feels like autumn now!
Spotted – Chrysanthemum!
Just when I thought we would not see any, I have noted two flowering chrysanthemums and two more…
Wigwams blown down
The first one came down the other week during the strong wind and rain we had. The second…
Amaranthus looking good
A note to make for next year, plant flowers in groups. The Amaranthus I am really pleased with,…
The Late Seeds – Result
The seeds that were planted a little bit late (see http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/more-seeds-too-late/) have had semi success. They took a…
Sweetpeas along the side
This little project was all about trying to tart up the ‘bit down the side’ and while it…
September 08 Snapshot
Rain rain rain rain rain 🙁 All summer. The Back: The Front:
Last Rhubarb of 2008
Been meaning to pick this for ages, our last lot of rhubarb for the year. Apart from Rhubarb…
Blackcurrant Bush Pruned
The book says to cut back to two buds at least one third of the bush, plus any…
Baby Sunflower Child
This is all unexpected. Tonight I discovered a new small flower on one of the sunflowers which has…
w18 Amaranthus is focal point
I am really pleased with this Amaranthus stuff. It seems quite robust and during the time now when…
Plants for dry places from Gardeners World
The front garden is nice with all the wild flowers that we have sown, but this year they…
w18 sunflowers are grinning
I suppose these need to be cut down at sometime, save some seed and sort out what to…
Worms keep chomping on the scraps
I am quite happy with how the worms are going. They are on the second layer and are…
w18 Potatoes dug up
The great things about potatoes, you put them in and they sprout. They all look nice and green,…
w17 We Eat A Chillie
One day it was small, and the next day it more than doubled in size. So we picked…
w17 Should dig up those potatoes
We don’t know what type of potato they are, but I think now we are in august it…
w17 Sweetpeas at ‘the side’
I still have so much to do to the “bit down the side” but money and time seem…
w17 Lavender cuttings keep going
These are my own little babies! Out of I think five pots, we now have two left, each…
w17 Amaranthus starts to flower!
I really don’t know what these plants are, and I forget how come I bought them and planted…
w17 – Sunflowers at the front
It’s windy and rainy…. which means the sunflowers at the front are a little bit sideways. But still,…
August 2008
The time has nearly come to do something about the grass in the front. It has come a…
w17 – Sunflowers finished in the back
“Didn’t they do well?” I am quite pleased, and now we have a load of massive sunflower heads…
w17 – Sweetpeas
Not too bad seeing as I didn’t do anything at all apart from plant these. Sweet Peas from…