Beans, Peas, and the attack of the Tomatoes
Despite the black fly which seems to be covering our garden like a blanket, these french beans are…
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Despite the black fly which seems to be covering our garden like a blanket, these french beans are…
We have had plenty of radish and lettuce from the square foot garden, but both of those get…
These were early potatoes but we planted them a month late and so it made sense that we…
It has taken a couple of years to get to this stage, but this year the passion flower…
I was pleased to see loads of new flowers appearing on the courgettes, but less so of all…
After a good month of blue skies, hot weather and sun sun sun… we had two or three…
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning…
I noticed a lot of flowers but then a closer inspection meant I spotted one baby tomato! The…
I did plan to do the supports like the book suggests, but time took over and after thinking…
Due to this and that, I never treated the decking with anything last year, something which is normally…
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
It seems amazing sometimes that from a bare garden in the middle of winter all this is hiding…
The whole garden is full of daisies, big ones, small ones, ones yet to appear!
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry…
We put the peas in late but that should not be too much of a problem, all that…
We sowed meadow and wild flower seed in the front garden a number of years ago and ever…
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front…
These have been indoors in small pots up until the other week when I planted them out, four…
Leeks are so easy to grow it seemed a shame that we missed out this year and so…
A bit late, like everything else… but I found some old sunflower seed and thought I would give…
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have…
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
No time to “do the paperwork” but planting has been going on loads since the weekend. Yet to…
June has come rather fast! We have had a lot of sun this last week while we have…
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) …
A tale of two seeds, or infact two lots of seeds. Two different squares were planted with the…
This is where it all happens and one day I might even finish the spreadsheet! Currently it is…
I thought we had seen the last of our passion flower when after the winter it just stayed…
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
On time… the late planted onion sets are starting to show signs of sprouting. The weather has been…
I have never thought of doing this before until I read about it and really it makes a…
Do not be alarmed, I know too well that it is cutting it a bit fine to start…
For this Square Foot Gardening I am keep plans up-to-date on a spreadsheet, something I may share at…
A bit late for doing this, but I saw red onion sets for sale at Wilkinsons and so…
It was been mostly cold and wet these last days which has meant we had not been out…
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
After a week of sunny days we seem to have started a phase of cold and rain, which…
Tom and Jack have a cooking book which is quite clever (given to them from their Aunty Christine…
Vermiculite it seems is hard to get hold of in the States from what I read on the…
Another weekend working on the square foot garden and this time building and putting in place the second…
We have started to make changes to the back garden with the square foot garden starting to take…
Whoops, we are a bit late with our potato project, about a month late really as these were…
We have never done this before, but after reading about pumpkins to Tom and Jack the other night…
After the fun of the bashing the concrete then followed a week of clearing the debris. It did…
This bit of concrete has been marked for a long time to be where we will eventually have…
The other day it was hardly noticeable and then suddenly it appeared, out of knowwhere, a bit of…
The two gooseberry bushes in the front garden have not had a good life so far, they seem…
It seems like we have spent months of rain and cold, snow here and there… finally spring has…
J got this as part of a Christmas present, grow your own square tomatoes! The initial question is…
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in.…