Found some sunflowers
A bit late, like everything else… but I found some old sunflower seed and thought I would give…
Sweetcorn come out for the sun
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have…
Potato Growth
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
Loads of planting been going on
No time to “do the paperwork” but planting has been going on loads since the weekend. Yet to…
Snapshot June 2010
June has come rather fast! We have had a lot of sun this last week while we have…
Seedlings in the Utility Room
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) …
Pre-Sprouting Seeds
A tale of two seeds, or infact two lots of seeds. Two different squares were planted with the…
Garden Planning
This is where it all happens and one day I might even finish the spreadsheet! Currently it is…
Back from the Dead
I thought we had seen the last of our passion flower when after the winter it just stayed…
Potato Sacks Now Full
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
Onion Sets starting off
On time… the late planted onion sets are starting to show signs of sprouting. The weather has been…
Sprouting Seeds
I have never thought of doing this before until I read about it and really it makes a…
Sweetcorn planted in two different ways
Do not be alarmed, I know too well that it is cutting it a bit fine to start…
14 Days Later… We Have a Carrot!
For this Square Foot Gardening I am keep plans up-to-date on a spreadsheet, something I may share at…
Red Onions Planted 2010
A bit late for doing this, but I saw red onion sets for sale at Wilkinsons and so…
Square Foot Bed Two Mixed
It was been mostly cold and wet these last days which has meant we had not been out…
Topping up Potatoes
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
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.…
Square Tomatoes
J got this as part of a Christmas present, grow your own square tomatoes! The initial question is…
Finally 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.…
Potatoes for Schools – Chitting
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme. …
Pruning the Apple Tree
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
Pruning the Apple Tree
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
Finaly Met the Mushroom Man!
There is a farm in Horam down Laundry Lane, it is on the corner of a tight bend…
Finaly Met the Mushroom Man
There is a farm in Horam down Laundry Lane, it is on the corner of a tight bend…
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…