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…
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…