Tag: garden
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Plotting…
So, brave new year and despite a rotten chesty cough and head cold the projects begin. The previous twin plots edged with wine bottles looked great at first then just looked plain untidy. They didn’t hold back the grass in-growth either. You can see the general idea. All three beds will be so enclosed, the […]
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Bees like Kale!
When your veg plot goodies begin to bolt… lettuce, spinach… kale… it’s usually due to wobbly weather. We’ve had some wobbly weather this year alright! And so it was no surprise when the green and purple curly Kale both went nuts and began to flower. The torrential, constany, unending, drought-busting rain – sent in response to several […]
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Rain 1 : Plums 0 (or 1000, depending how you count it)
Earlier today, a work colleague brought a bucket of ‘help yourself’ plums in. Taken, slightly unripe, from his garden tree his intention was to make use of the fruit before it pulled the tree over, such was the bounty. Fruit of all kind appears to be in surplus this season, perhaps due to the weather, and […]
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Three new chooks
By chance, Miss found out that the local farm shop had some ‘Point of Lay’ chickens for sale and we picked up three new girls on Saturday. We now have two Marans – our original Speckledy from 2005 and a new Basic Marans, the two Welsummers from 2007 and two new White Sussex. The picture […]
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The flowers are beating the weeds – just!
Summer is in full swing now, and the garden is doing whatever it feels like – ’cause it’s too, too hot to worry about weeding! More pictures if you click the clicky ‘more’ (unless there’s no clicky, in which case there’s no more! Grin)…
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One of our blackbirds is missing…
I’m not a twitcher, but I think this is a male Goshawk. Might be a Sparrowhawk, but the belly looks whiter and the feathering over the top of the legs indicates Goshawk (twitch, twitch!) 🙂 That’s certainly no longer a fledgling blackbird, anyway… It found today’s evening meal in our back garden close by the […]
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…and breathe (ramblings on a rest day)
Finally the larger raised beds in the back garden are finished. It’s taken some time in a life currently far too short of free time but last evening I put the last dowel in the edging blocks and leveled the soil. The rest, as the saying goes, is up to Miss. The bits you can […]
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achy breaky bish
With a return to work (oh joy!) on the horizon after the midwinter break I’ve been playing with train sets in the garden. In other words I have several ruddy great ex-railway sleepers (not creosoted) with which I’m building raised flower beds. The ‘garden’ was just an expanse of mud back in 2001 when we […]
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