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…
The Cress is Dead!
Whoops! How can you kill cress? I think maybe we over watered it one morning, it seemed to…
Bit down the Side – new plan
Ages ago I started to sort this bit of garden out, but never really finished it. I suppose…
Can-O-Worms – up to level two
Infact, level one was a bit high, so we scooped a whole lot out of it and put…
Seeds from Ebay
I thought I would give it a try, I had a small list of plants that I would…
Rhubarb
This often gets overlooked as it simply just sits there all year. It dies in the winter and…
@8 Months – Wild Strawberries
Since planting four wild strawberry plants back in August (see wild-strawberries-are-planted) it is time to see how they…
We have Bamboo
I saw it advertised on the local freecycle and I love the sound of bamboo in the wind. …
Grass Seed
After a chance post on freecycle for some top soil I managed to make contact with a friendly…
@One Week
Sunflowers, all up and growing. Been suggested to me by a friend that I should use cocktail sticks,…
We have basil!
At one week, we have basil…
We Have Tomatoes
One week after planting…
Salad starts to show
The packet says that within three weeks I’ll ‘cut and come again’ salad leaves. I think by the…
They are planted
Just three or four days ago we planted two pots of seeds, four sunflowers in each. We put…
Lavender Cuttings
A bit of an experiment as we have never done anything like this before. I was thinking how…
Wild Strawberries are planted
Strawberries are so nice and so easy to grow, I don’t know why it has taken this long…
Hello worms, this is your new home
The worms then spent a couple of days and nights in their bag in the cool dark garage,…
Rain cap for worms
I forgot all about this when I ordered the worms. I always said next time when we have…
The Worms Have Arrived
The worms arrived, in a little box with air holes, they all looked quite cosy in there. Fizz…
The bit down the side
There is always a bit in a garden that doesn’t get the sun much, maybe is down the…
Time to renew the worms
Years ago we bought a worm composter from a company called Wiggly Wigglers and their now quite famous…
Magic Stones
IMGP2808.JPG Originally uploaded by mrmole Ok, it’s nearly time to celebrate the first anniversary since I started working…
Bed five dug…
Bed five dug – bed 2 forked over and ready – bed 3 dug over again. Still lots…
Finished diggin bed 4
Finished digging bed 4. Forked over bed 2 with the idea of maybe putting a polythene tunnel over…
First time on the allotment this year
First time on the allotment this year. I have started to save my paper at home, I am…
Must start planning
Must start acting and sorting out what I need to do, our first year is about to start…
Beds dug
Not going according the the first sketch that I drew, but still going well. I dug the third…
Clocks Changed and eco ideas
Clocks have now changed, we are now in winter time which means a lot less time for the…
Found wheelbarrows
Behind the shed noticed a couple of wheelbarrows in the hedge. Cut back the hedge and now there…
Starting to Clear
Started to clear the plot and was surprised by how easy everything came up, everything is just on…
Moving rhubarb
Moved the existing rhubarb from by the hedge to the top by the greenhouse. This is now in…