Topping up Potatoes
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
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Square foot bed one mixed
After a week of sunny days we seem to have started a phase of cold and rain, which…
Pumpkin Tarts – the start…
Tom and Jack have a cooking book which is quite clever (given to them from their Aunty Christine…
Mel’s Mix – The Ingredients
Vermiculite it seems is hard to get hold of in the States from what I read on the…
Square Foot Garden ready to be filled
Another weekend working on the square foot garden and this time building and putting in place the second…
April 2010 Snapshot
We have started to make changes to the back garden with the square foot garden starting to take…
Potatoes planted at last!
Whoops, we are a bit late with our potato project, about a month late really as these were…
Pumpin seeds planted
We have never done this before, but after reading about pumpkins to Tom and Jack the other night…
First Square Foot Bed in Place
After the fun of the bashing the concrete then followed a week of clearing the debris. It did…
Square foot gardening to start? Goodbye concrete!
This bit of concrete has been marked for a long time to be where we will eventually have…
Rhubarb 2010 is here
The other day it was hardly noticeable and then suddenly it appeared, out of knowwhere, a bit of…
Green Shoots on Gooseberries
The two gooseberry bushes in the front garden have not had a good life so far, they seem…
Spring is here 2010!
It seems like we have spent months of rain and cold, snow here and there… finally spring has…
Square Tomatoes
J got this as part of a Christmas present, grow your own square tomatoes! The initial question is…
Finaly we have Raspberries
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in.…
Potatoes for Schools – Chitting
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme.…
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a…
Pruning the Plum Tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer…
Snowdrops
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
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…
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,…