There has been an imperceptible shift in the garden. Up until this point I feel like I have been managing tender young seedlings, doing what I can to nurture them into independence. They have been scrawny, scrappy and poorly and…
Read MoreWe are now in summer and I was hoping to put all my troubles behind me. Of the first four days of the season, there hasn’t been much to complain about except a two-hour window of intense craziness on Tuesday….
Read MoreAs exciting as 2018 was, I’m not all that keen to repeat it. I think you should probably limit the number of dramatic upheavals in a lifetime. Now we have found this beautiful spot and put in all this hard…
Read MoreWow! What a year. I have to say it was one I really wasn’t planning for or expecting at the start of the previous one. Sitting on a sunny beach at the start of 2017 I had absolutely no idea…
Read MoreRadish is a quick and easy crop, and this is where the flibbertigibbet of season worked in my favour. I was late getting them in and ordinarily the weather warms up and then all they do is bolt to seed…
Read MoreIt seems like forever since I have been in the garden. Last week I was at the flower show which was exciting and inspiring, and I loved every moment. This week we had a bereavement in the family and while…
Read MoreNormally at this time of year we look back over the previous twelve months and wax lyrical about the mundane goings in the garden, reminisce over the ordinary and set goals along the lines of ‘must keep on top of…
Read MoreThis is a strange time of year in many ways. Ordinarily we aren’t here at all, but off beside the sea somewhere soaking in the summer sun and doing some well deserved relaxing after a hard year of hard yakka. …
Read MoreI woke in the middle of the night to the sound of rain bouncing off the roof. Its deep rhythmic nature sent me peacefully back to sleep knowing I wouldn’t need to worry about the garden for a couple of…
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