Sedium Cuttings
Someone allowed me to take some cuttings from their garden and so I had a couple of snips…
Author: Steve
Lavender Pruned
From something rather overgrown to something a much neater. I had to cut into the wood a bit…
September 2009
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
Ladybird ladybird…
Tom spotted a little lady bird walking about a bit lost on the driveway, so he picked her…
Flowers in September
It is noticeable that the evenings are darker and the mornings are colder, but we have the sunflowers…
Not Too Tall – Not Too Big
The sunflowers in the front garden are giving some colour now that other plants are starting to die…
Along Comes the Wind
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind…
Baby Peppers
Are they peppers or rather strange looking chillies? We had both types of plant, but I forgot which…
Eight Runner Beans Plants Too Much?
Our first harvest of runner beans took place a number of weeks ago. We are now under constant…
The Wild Sunflowers 2009!
Gardening can be fun but often is a lot of hard work, but all the hard work mostly…
Green Plum Tomatoes
Our tomatoes have not done that well this year, a bit like last year and the year before. …
Digging the Potatoes 2009
It is such a long term project, you plant them and then you wait and wait and wait. …
Chocolate Cosmos
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last…
Summer Time Flowers
These look just so great and is what I have tried to make the garden be all about,…
Amaranthus Points the Way
Last year I had never heard of Amaaranthus until I bought some seed and had a go at…
Sweet Potatoes Slowly Grow
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the…
Plums everywhere apart from on the tree!
I was so delighted the other month to find out out that our non flowering cherry tree had…
July 2009
The bad weather has taken its toll a bit, although now that has stopped and we are back…
Beans and Snails
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
Alan Titchmarsh Regional Report – August 09
For some months now I have been using the various blog postings I have made here to string…
Poppies
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
White Fuschia
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
Worms Re-visited
It is time to revisit the wormary. I am more than pleased with how things are going, ever…
A Cherry Tree with Plums
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring…
Wild Sunflowers
This is one of the two wild sunflowers that popped up this year. They are not the tallest…
Sprouts off to a good start
These had a bit of a shaky start but have now settled in well. The sprout plants are…
The Day of the Herbs
So no more cats have dug up the herbs and really if they wanted to know they would…
Chocolate Courgettes
Earlier on in the year we received a couple of courgette plants off our local Freecycle group. Now…
Tomato Flowers are Here
I thought the day would never come! We have had these plum tomato plants for months now and…
Snapshot June 09
Summer time is here, yeah!!! It seems that the whole country is suffering from really bad thunder storms…
Finally Looked at the Back Bed
This bed at the back of the garden has not really been touched for years and it really…
Cherries
For a non fruiting cherry tree we are getting quite a lot of cherries this year!
Old Seeds Sowed – Go Away Cat!
The main flower bed in the back garden has not been touched for some months and was starting…
Signs of Potato Flowers
Watering each day and all looking good. Spotted signs of flowers.
The Cat Tries to Stop our Herb Progress!
Everything was looking good, you cannot quite see it here but all rows were showing seedlings. Which means…
Sprouts Planted
We haven’t grown sprouts for years but a good neighbour down the road gave us some the other…
Beans have a slow start
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
Sunflowers planted outside
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Mirrored Passion Flower
Don’t be fooled, this picture is a lot bigger than it actualy is. The two small passion flowers…
Courgette Flowers
My belief that courgettes must be one of the easiest plants to grow continues (courgettes and leeks remain…
Herbs one week on
It has been a week of mainly clouds and rain and not a lot of sun. I moved…
Potatoes look very healthy
A mixture of sun, warm weather, and now rain, it has been a good couple of weeks for…
Courgettes grow grow grow
These are going very well indeed, infact since this photo was taken there are now the small forms…
Runner Beans at Last
Not much growing success with runner beans this year, all a bit strange. The ones I planted outside…
Herbs in grow bags
This is something I spotted in BBC Gardners World magazine last year and it has taken until now…
Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes
A number of the plum tomatoes from the kit have been repotted. We are now a house full…
Wild Wild Strawberries
These are like little rubies in a sea of green leaves. The wild strawberries are fruiting and while…
Sweetpeas planted
These are of Cornish origin, the seed is a number of years old, but each year they give…
Butternut Squash Planted Out
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking…
Bean Poles Erected!
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…