Today marks a pretty cool milestone for me. It was 10 years ago today that I hesitantly uploaded my very first video to You Tube. I was a great fan of those early gardening videos, although there weren’t many of…
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 MoreSince we moved here back in January there was an important member of the family who came with us. However we weren’t able to bring all of his bits and pieces with us and had to leave them behind. We…
Read MoreI have been missing from my garden for too long. But it just couldn’t be helped. The school holidays took us to sunny Fiji for a wonderful week away with the kids. It was completely the wrong time of year…
Read MoreIt is all go in the garden and we approach the summer. Most of my seeds have been sown and there are some that still need to be done. I’ve tried to stick with the plan, so I have all…
Read MoreFinally – I’m in. There are seedlings in there. It isn’t quite finished as we are still waiting for the glass to arrive, but it is coming on a slow boat from China and I’m ok with that as it…
Read MoreI have a confession. I have been holding out on you. But I wanted it to be a surprise. You see after the big storm back in April, when the house was still up on jacks, while the foundations underneath…
Read MoreI have a mountain of earth to move. It equates to 6 truckloads of good quality swamp-like soil from ‘up near Froggies’ near where we used to live. I feel confident it will be a fabulous growing medium for my…
Read MoreI feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew, and my eyes are bigger than my stomach but I really want what I want, so I will work hard to get there. My garden is huge. Last…
Read MoreThe garden is on the move again! Now the house is kind of under control and in the hands of a good builder, the time is right to focus on other things and in particular the garden. For the last…
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