Beans and Snails
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
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Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
For some months now I have been using the various blog postings I have made here to string…
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
It is time to revisit the wormary. I am more than pleased with how things are going, ever…
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring…
This is one of the two wild sunflowers that popped up this year. They are not the tallest…
These had a bit of a shaky start but have now settled in well. The sprout plants are…
So no more cats have dug up the herbs and really if they wanted to know they would…
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
I thought the day would never come! We have had these plum tomato plants for months now and…
Summer time is here, yeah!!! It seems that the whole country is suffering from really bad thunder storms…
This bed at the back of the garden has not really been touched for years and it really…
For a non fruiting cherry tree we are getting quite a lot of cherries this year!
The main flower bed in the back garden has not been touched for some months and was starting…
Watering each day and all looking good. Spotted signs of flowers.
Everything was looking good, you cannot quite see it here but all rows were showing seedlings. Which means…
We haven’t grown sprouts for years but a good neighbour down the road gave us some the other…
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Don’t be fooled, this picture is a lot bigger than it actualy is. The two small passion flowers…
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain…
It has been a week of mainly clouds and rain and not a lot of sun. I moved…
A mixture of sun, warm weather, and now rain, it has been a good couple of weeks for…
These are going very well indeed, infact since this photo was taken there are now the small forms…
Not much growing success with runner beans this year, all a bit strange. The ones I planted outside…
This is something I spotted in BBC Gardners World magazine last year and it has taken until now…
A number of the plum tomatoes from the kit have been repotted. We are now a house full…
These are like little rubies in a sea of green leaves. The wild strawberries are fruiting and while…
These are of Cornish origin, the seed is a number of years old, but each year they give…
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking…
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
Forget the “shower cap” you can buy from Wiggly Wigglers, it is hard to put on and it…
A mixture of bad weather and a lot of late nights from work has meant that we have…
This is a rather sad picture of the blackcurrent bush. I don’t quite know what is going wrong…
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
These are doing all very nice, all the millions that we have! As it happens, I found a…
The other week I noticed on the CBeebies website that Tom and Jack spend quite some time on…
Yum, our first pickings this year and it went very well with crumble and custard! Tom and Jack…
I made a mistake and positioned this seed tray in the bedroom where I thought there would be…
These were repotted a couple of weeks ago and I have since kept them in the south facing…
I saw courgette plants offered on our local Freecycle and so asked to have a couple and here…
… in the corner of the garden that once had a shed on it. Unfortunatly the previous owners…
I read my notes from last year and we left it a bit late for planting potatoes and…
We have a nice area of decking, we can sit at the table, we can see the Clematis…
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
These have been growing on the window sill for a little while and they are in desperate need…
The other week I mentioned that really I woud like to replace the lavender as it had got…