Seedlings starting to show
With not much rain over the last weeks I went up to the plot to water the rows…
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Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
Prepping for Courgettes
Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Rain!
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
All of a sudden… courgettes
A quick visit this evening as it was Wednesday, we had a small list of things to do…
Brasica netting on the cheap
The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…
Who’s been eating?
Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…
Midweek evening – no need to water
Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about. This week…
Indoor progress
Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house. I’m still not sure what…
Re-potting Seedlings
The sprouts and the calabrese that have been in small pots on the window sill for the last…
Sowing the seeds
It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…
First Sowing – indoors
It’s been a “snow day”, or as I’m no longer a child I can say it’s “been snowing…
Wet and Damp – and some Fails
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
Blackfly on the courgettes
I was pleased to see loads of new flowers appearing on the courgettes, but less so of all…
A couple of days of wind and rain
After a good month of blue skies, hot weather and sun sun sun… we had two or three…
Going to Seed?
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning…
Sweetcorn come out for the sun
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have…
Seedlings in the Utility Room
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) …
Courgette Goo
I talked about making a chocolate cake with courgette as one of the ingredients back at sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/chocolate-courgettes/ I…
Monster Courgettes
I like courgettes but sometime you have just a bit too much. It seems that the courgette plant…
Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
Courgette Flowers
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain…
Courgettes grow grow grow
These are going very well indeed, infact since this photo was taken there are now the small forms…
Courgettes from Freecycle and Killing Slugs
I saw courgette plants offered on our local Freecycle and so asked to have a couple and here…