First pick of Rhubarb
We decided to make some apple pies and rhubarb pies today and so we found the two largest…
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We decided to make some apple pies and rhubarb pies today and so we found the two largest…
Just been out and one plant had a slug chomping away, while another had been chomped and is…
They have been in some water for the last couple of days, all looking pretty dead but hey.…
….to prevent us having sunflowers! One down due to slug damage, one down due to the cat…
These are the smaller ones, Velvet Queen, that we sowed the other day. Not too unexpected as…
Time to try again, who can actually kill cress??! Well it seems we can, so we have sowed…
Woolworths is a great shop! We did this last year, went in and managed to pick up…
I will have to look up info about these plants as today we saw the first shoots of…
It just so happened that today we got some slug gravel stuff in order to protect the sunflowers…
The weather at the moment is fantastic for growing grass, lots of warm sun, and lots of warm…
I don’t really know much about these as a plant or flower, they are some of the seeds…
These are two lots of sunflowers that I bought off Ebay the other week. One the left are…
Maybe way too late, but here goes anyway. This is seed taken from last year’s plants that we…
We have had it for some time now, in a pot and ready to be planted. I finally…
The sunflowers we planted outside into the garden today. Added netting (to keep the cat off) and slug…
Not much to see, but they are now planted, possibly a bit late as everywhere I went to…
Whoops! How can you kill cress? I think maybe we over watered it one morning, it seemed to…
Ages ago I started to sort this bit of garden out, but never really finished it. I suppose…
Infact, level one was a bit high, so we scooped a whole lot out of it and put…
I thought I would give it a try, I had a small list of plants that I would…
This often gets overlooked as it simply just sits there all year. It dies in the winter and…
Since planting four wild strawberry plants back in August (see wild-strawberries-are-planted) it is time to see how they…
I saw it advertised on the local freecycle and I love the sound of bamboo in the wind. …
After a chance post on freecycle for some top soil I managed to make contact with a friendly…
Sunflowers, all up and growing. Been suggested to me by a friend that I should use cocktail sticks,…
At one week, we have basil…
One week after planting…
The packet says that within three weeks I’ll ‘cut and come again’ salad leaves. I think by the…
Just three or four days ago we planted two pots of seeds, four sunflowers in each. We put…
A bit of an experiment as we have never done anything like this before. I was thinking how…
Strawberries are so nice and so easy to grow, I don’t know why it has taken this long…
The worms then spent a couple of days and nights in their bag in the cool dark garage,…
I forgot all about this when I ordered the worms. I always said next time when we have…
The worms arrived, in a little box with air holes, they all looked quite cosy in there. Fizz…
There is always a bit in a garden that doesn’t get the sun much, maybe is down the…
Years ago we bought a worm composter from a company called Wiggly Wigglers and their now quite famous…
IMGP2808.JPG Originally uploaded by mrmole Ok, it’s nearly time to celebrate the first anniversary since I started working…
Bed five dug – bed 2 forked over and ready – bed 3 dug over again. Still lots…
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. I have started to save my paper at home, I am…
Must start acting and sorting out what I need to do, our first year is about to start…
Not going according the the first sketch that I drew, but still going well. I dug the third…
Clocks have now changed, we are now in winter time which means a lot less time for the…
Behind the shed noticed a couple of wheelbarrows in the hedge. Cut back the hedge and now there…
Started to clear the plot and was surprised by how easy everything came up, everything is just on…
Moved the existing rhubarb from by the hedge to the top by the greenhouse. This is now in…