More rustic things ‘down the side’
The plan for ‘down the side’ is all coming together, and in a shade of blue. Last…
Author: Steve
Flower Bed at the Back
I am not too sure about this bit of the garden. It houses the worlds biggest collection of…
Lavender looking good
This is in the front garden by the door. An interesting story here as it was a lavender…
RIP Tomatoes
This is not looking good, the tomatoes are now all dead. I can’t really work out why, maybe…
First Cut
It has been growing for some months now and it was the first time ever to cut it…
Amaranthus Planted Out
It really needed doing weeks and weeks ago, but I finally got round to planting these things out. …
Sweetpeas tied up
These are the ones planted at the bottom of the “rustic” divider that I made. They have…
Dying Tomatoes!
I am not too sure what has happened here, but this plant does not look too well.
Flower Seeds now Showing
The photo does not do it any justice, but here we have the seeds that I sowed the…
Radishes starting to show!
Rach will be in radish heaven soon!
@week 9 – Black Currents
Black Currents are now… turning black!
@week 9 – Sunflowers
Things are starting to happen. The tall sunflowers are now very tall and I am hoping to…
@week 9 – Potatoes
These continue to grow and flowers can just be seen about to pop out
@week 9 – Beans and Sweetpeas
It is hard to spot them all here, but loom and you will see runner beans climbing up…
Who’s Eating the Strawberries?
It is not us as these are wild strawberries and I don’t find them too nice to eat…
Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb
Here is something, all this rhubarb could do with picking right now and eating.
RIP Bamboo
Whoops – it did look a bit dead when I finally got round to planting it and now……
Flowers in the front
Just some pretty cottage garden flowers.
Tied up Clematis
The title says is all really. I have been meaning to do it for days, every time I…
Radishes and Rocket Planted
Underneath the towering sunflowers, tonight we put in some radish and rocket seed. Something quick and simple and…
More Sweetpeas Planted
These are the last batch of sweetpeas, planted to grow up the side of the new trellis bit…
Last Seeds of the Year
Only just in time, we shall see what happens. I have put netting in top to stop…
Sunflower Tied Up
This one sunflower has grown grown grown! I had to tied it against the fence tonight to…
More Seeds – Too Late?
It is beginning of June, I am leaving it all a bit late if I want to sow…
Bit Down the Side – Painted
I have been about it for ages and age, to tart up the bit down the side of…
@Seven Weeks – Chillies
I must read up on these as I am not too sure what you are meant to do…
@Seven Weeks – Wild Strawberries
A small number of little red strawberries. I did try tasting one and although not unpleasent, it wasn’t…
@Seven Weeks – Grass
After a numbe of sunny days the grass was not looking good without water, but for the last…
@Seven Weeks – Runner Beans
They are now all planted out at the wigwams.
@Seven Weeks – Sweetpeas
I am still pretty much chuffed with how these are going. I planted the first batch out and…
@Seven Weeks – Basil
We are now eating it too, yum yum
@Seven Weeks – Amaranthus
I am sure that by now I should have had thinned and/or repotted these… but I haven’t yet.
@Seven Weeks – Wildflower seed
T&J ‘helped’ to sow these seeds and it has been hard to work out in the past if…
@Seven Weeks – Sunflowers
The ones outside are growing growing growing! I still have a couple more to plant out that are…
June 2008
The front – I cut the grass for the first time at the weekend with a new snazzy…
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…