w18 sunflowers are grinning
I suppose these need to be cut down at sometime, save some seed and sort out what to…
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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…
Beans Beans Beans
We didn’t grow the runner beans in order to achieve a massive great harvest, but what we do…
w15 – Chillies
These have been keeping themselves to themselves but now we have some development. Our last remaining chillie plant…
w15 – Sunflowers in front
The smaller sunflowers in the front garden seem to have grown rather large and are swamping the small…
New Lavenders from Gardener’s World
I sent off for these from the BBC Gardener’s World which were free of charge with the magaine…
Small Sunflower
Out of all the large sunflowers, there were two that never really grew. One just seemed to not…
Seeds were maybe too late…
The flower seeds that I sowed late and didn’t really know if it was a bit too late…
@w 14 – Sunflowers
We have two above the fence, two that didn’t really do anything, and the rest that are fine. …
@w14 – black currants picked
We spent the morning harvesting the black currents off our one and only bush. Mind you, there were…
@w14 – beans
They are still climbing, flowering, and I noticed a couple of small runny beans hanging off the other…
@week 13 – sweetpeas
The small bed that I have made for these sweetpeas really is not deep enough I don’t think…
@week13 – sunflowers
Mostly now all flowering, def all stopped growing and now onto their flowers.
@week 13 – potato flowers
We have flowers on the potatoes. I didn’t really know if we would get any flowers, not knowing…
Buddleia escapes!
It has been rather windy here and when it gets windy it definatly does get windy! The Buddleia…
@week 12 – Sunflowers
We have a second flower showing now! But the dude that is second from the right is still…
Rain rain rain – but blackcurrants are loving it
The last sunny day of summer was on the 5th of July 2008? I wonder…. Since then it…
First sunflower showing!
We have our first sunflower starting to flower!! Small at the moment and it seems to be…
@10 weeks – Apples
We missed the blossom from the apple tree as I was not doing this website back then. A…
@10 weeks – sweetpeas and beans
The runner beans are making a runner for the top of the wigwams, even against all the strong…
@week 10 – Sunflowers
I am hoping that some of these will top the fence. Photos here were taken a couple of…
@week 10 – Radishes
A lot of thinning out has been done and I think a bit more is needed.
@week 10 – Black Currants
Just some more weeks of sunshine needed and these will be ready to pick
Seeds in the Back
We are starting to get a nice display of ‘flowers for wildlife’ at the back. The seeds we…
Patio cleaned up
We spent a lot of the day tarting up the patio area. One day this will all be…
Lavender and the Bee
Why does the wind decide to blow when you are trying to get a close up of a…
More rustic things ‘down the side’
The plan for ‘down the side’ is all coming together, and in a shade of blue. Last…
Flower Bed at the Back
I am not too sure about this bit of the garden. It houses the worlds biggest collection of…
Lavender looking good
This is in the front garden by the door. An interesting story here as it was a lavender…
RIP Tomatoes
This is not looking good, the tomatoes are now all dead. I can’t really work out why, maybe…
First Cut
It has been growing for some months now and it was the first time ever to cut it…
Amaranthus Planted Out
It really needed doing weeks and weeks ago, but I finally got round to planting these things out. …
Sweetpeas tied up
These are the ones planted at the bottom of the “rustic” divider that I made. They have…
Dying Tomatoes!
I am not too sure what has happened here, but this plant does not look too well.
Flower Seeds now Showing
The photo does not do it any justice, but here we have the seeds that I sowed the…
Radishes starting to show!
Rach will be in radish heaven soon!
@week 9 – Black Currents
Black Currents are now… turning black!
@week 9 – Sunflowers
Things are starting to happen. The tall sunflowers are now very tall and I am hoping to…
@week 9 – Potatoes
These continue to grow and flowers can just be seen about to pop out
@week 9 – Beans and Sweetpeas
It is hard to spot them all here, but loom and you will see runner beans climbing up…