Who’s Eating the Strawberries?
It is not us as these are wild strawberries and I don’t find them too nice to eat…
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Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb
Here is something, all this rhubarb could do with picking right now and eating.
RIP Bamboo
Whoops – it did look a bit dead when I finally got round to planting it and now……
Flowers in the front
Just some pretty cottage garden flowers.
Tied up Clematis
The title says is all really. I have been meaning to do it for days, every time I…
Radishes and Rocket Planted
Underneath the towering sunflowers, tonight we put in some radish and rocket seed. Something quick and simple and…
More Sweetpeas Planted
These are the last batch of sweetpeas, planted to grow up the side of the new trellis bit…
Last Seeds of the Year
Only just in time, we shall see what happens. I have put netting in top to stop…
Sunflower Tied Up
This one sunflower has grown grown grown! I had to tied it against the fence tonight to…
More Seeds – Too Late?
It is beginning of June, I am leaving it all a bit late if I want to sow…
Bit Down the Side – Painted
I have been about it for ages and age, to tart up the bit down the side of…
@Seven Weeks – Chillies
I must read up on these as I am not too sure what you are meant to do…
@Seven Weeks – Wild Strawberries
A small number of little red strawberries. I did try tasting one and although not unpleasent, it wasn’t…
@Seven Weeks – Grass
After a numbe of sunny days the grass was not looking good without water, but for the last…
@Seven Weeks – Runner Beans
They are now all planted out at the wigwams.
@Seven Weeks – Sweetpeas
I am still pretty much chuffed with how these are going. I planted the first batch out and…
@Seven Weeks – Basil
We are now eating it too, yum yum
@Seven Weeks – Amaranthus
I am sure that by now I should have had thinned and/or repotted these… but I haven’t yet.
@Seven Weeks – Wildflower seed
T&J ‘helped’ to sow these seeds and it has been hard to work out in the past if…
@Seven Weeks – Sunflowers
The ones outside are growing growing growing! I still have a couple more to plant out that are…
June 2008
The front – I cut the grass for the first time at the weekend with a new snazzy…
Cutting back Honeysuckle
Around this time last year we completely cut down the honeysuckle as we needed to replace the fence it was…
Lavender – the Parents
Following the success in the lavender cuttings, here are their parents – all looking good and ready to…
Lavender Cuttings Planted Outside
Back in September I decided to have a go at taking lavender cuttings and I am pleased today…
Second Wigwam
It was been quite a while since last post and that is mainly down to being out of…
Small sunflowers planted outside
These really did need planting. I was going to wait until I came back from my trip but…
Wigwams
It’s been a while, but I have been away from home. Last weekend we spent some time putting…
@Four Weeks
So much going on and so little time to do things! I have added a whole load…
Beans planted
A weekend of planting beans and painting bean poles! We don’t really want too many beans, but…
Yum Yum Cress
Tonight we took our first cuttings of cress! Very tasty….
@Three Weeks
We are certainly in business now. Sunflowers have been outside for a week and while we have lost…
New Life – Clematis
We had a nice little Clematis in the back garden going up the fence by the decking…. until…
Clematis in full flower
We bought this last year when we did the front garden and it never flowered. The main reason…
First pick of Rhubarb
We decided to make some apple pies and rhubarb pies today and so we found the two largest…
Slugs get another Sunflower!
Just been out and one plant had a slug chomping away, while another had been chomped and is…
Reduced Fruit Bushes Planted
They have been in some water for the last couple of days, all looking pretty dead but hey.…
Sunflowers – Slugs and Cat Do Their Best…
….to prevent us having sunflowers! One down due to slug damage, one down due to the cat…
More Sunflowers Start to Show
These are the smaller ones, Velvet Queen, that we sowed the other day. Not too unexpected as…
Cress – Take Two
Time to try again, who can actually kill cress??! Well it seems we can, so we have sowed…
Reduced Fruit Bushes
Woolworths is a great shop! We did this last year, went in and managed to pick up…
Amaranthus starts to show
I will have to look up info about these plants as today we saw the first shoots of…
Slugs and Sunflowers
It just so happened that today we got some slug gravel stuff in order to protect the sunflowers…
We have grass
The weather at the moment is fantastic for growing grass, lots of warm sun, and lots of warm…
Amaranthus Planted
I don’t really know much about these as a plant or flower, they are some of the seeds…
More Sunflowers Planted
These are two lots of sunflowers that I bought off Ebay the other week. One the left are…
Sweet Peas Planted
Maybe way too late, but here goes anyway. This is seed taken from last year’s plants that we…
White Spuce Planted
We have had it for some time now, in a pot and ready to be planted. I finally…
@Two Weeks
The sunflowers we planted outside into the garden today. Added netting (to keep the cat off) and slug…
Potatoes Planted
Not much to see, but they are now planted, possibly a bit late as everywhere I went to…