The updates here are slim right now and I can only offer excuses. Firstly, a lot of what has been going on in the garden has been rather same samey, which can come across as repetitive and boring. I’m not…
Read MoreOver the last few days, I’ve done a significant amount of harvesting, which is surprising considering we are at the end of the first week of winter. The first session was more a case of storm damage. The peas had…
Read MoreThis is always a bit of a grey area as to when the new season starts and the previous one ends. It makes sense to think that when harvesting stops from plants planted in the spring is a logical end,…
Read MoreThis takes us to the final phase of what I got up to this week. It got a little muddily towards the end of the week. The wind died down to just a gentle puff which was lovely. The first…
Read MoreAfter being away for 10 days I was champing at the bit to get out into the garden and check out how it fared in my absence. To be honest I wasn’t really worried as there isn’t much going on…
Read MoreI didn’t sleep well last night. I woke for no reason at all at 3am and didn’t see the inside of my eyelids again for another hour and a half, and not for lack of trying either. So, I had…
Read MoreAfter much deliberation I have a plan… of sorts. Outlined below is the first half. These are the beds where there will be no change really as they aren’t part of the crop rotation, so they are easy enough to…
Read MoreHistorically I have been absolutely terrible with keeping plants in pots and containers. There is so much pleasure and joy found tending the garden that I seem to run out of time for the small pot bound plants, not as…
Read MoreOhhhh…. Here we are on the eve of the most exciting gardening weekend in the entire calendar. More exciting that the sweet sensation of that first strawberry, crunch of the first pea or the delight that comes from the first…
Read MoreI don’t know why I was surprised when we returned from a day out to find the garden flooded again. I wracked my brain to try and remember was the ground sticky when we’d left, or did the inundation happen…
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