@Seven Weeks – Sweetpeas
I am still pretty much chuffed with how these are going. I planted the first batch out and…
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I am still pretty much chuffed with how these are going. I planted the first batch out and…
We are now eating it too, yum yum
I am sure that by now I should have had thinned and/or repotted these… but I haven’t yet.
T&J ‘helped’ to sow these seeds and it has been hard to work out in the past if…
The ones outside are growing growing growing! I still have a couple more to plant out that are…
The front – I cut the grass for the first time at the weekend with a new snazzy…
Around this time last year we completely cut down the honeysuckle as we needed to replace the fence it was…
Following the success in the lavender cuttings, here are their parents – all looking good and ready to…
Back in September I decided to have a go at taking lavender cuttings and I am pleased today…
It was been quite a while since last post and that is mainly down to being out of…
These really did need planting. I was going to wait until I came back from my trip but…
It’s been a while, but I have been away from home. Last weekend we spent some time putting…
So much going on and so little time to do things! I have added a whole load…
A weekend of planting beans and painting bean poles! We don’t really want too many beans, but…
Tonight we took our first cuttings of cress! Very tasty….
We are certainly in business now. Sunflowers have been outside for a week and while we have lost…
We had a nice little Clematis in the back garden going up the fence by the decking…. until…
We bought this last year when we did the front garden and it never flowered. The main reason…
We decided to make some apple pies and rhubarb pies today and so we found the two largest…
Just been out and one plant had a slug chomping away, while another had been chomped and is…
They have been in some water for the last couple of days, all looking pretty dead but hey.…
….to prevent us having sunflowers! One down due to slug damage, one down due to the cat…
These are the smaller ones, Velvet Queen, that we sowed the other day. Not too unexpected as…
Time to try again, who can actually kill cress??! Well it seems we can, so we have sowed…
Woolworths is a great shop! We did this last year, went in and managed to pick up…
I will have to look up info about these plants as today we saw the first shoots of…
It just so happened that today we got some slug gravel stuff in order to protect the sunflowers…
The weather at the moment is fantastic for growing grass, lots of warm sun, and lots of warm…
I don’t really know much about these as a plant or flower, they are some of the seeds…
These are two lots of sunflowers that I bought off Ebay the other week. One the left are…
Maybe way too late, but here goes anyway. This is seed taken from last year’s plants that we…
We have had it for some time now, in a pot and ready to be planted. I finally…
The sunflowers we planted outside into the garden today. Added netting (to keep the cat off) and slug…
Not much to see, but they are now planted, possibly a bit late as everywhere I went to…
Whoops! How can you kill cress? I think maybe we over watered it one morning, it seemed to…
Ages ago I started to sort this bit of garden out, but never really finished it. I suppose…
Infact, level one was a bit high, so we scooped a whole lot out of it and put…
I thought I would give it a try, I had a small list of plants that I would…
This often gets overlooked as it simply just sits there all year. It dies in the winter and…
Since planting four wild strawberry plants back in August (see wild-strawberries-are-planted) it is time to see how they…
I saw it advertised on the local freecycle and I love the sound of bamboo in the wind. …
After a chance post on freecycle for some top soil I managed to make contact with a friendly…
Sunflowers, all up and growing. Been suggested to me by a friend that I should use cocktail sticks,…
At one week, we have basil…
One week after planting…
The packet says that within three weeks I’ll ‘cut and come again’ salad leaves. I think by the…
Just three or four days ago we planted two pots of seeds, four sunflowers in each. We put…
A bit of an experiment as we have never done anything like this before. I was thinking how…
Strawberries are so nice and so easy to grow, I don’t know why it has taken this long…
The worms then spent a couple of days and nights in their bag in the cool dark garage,…