I know that technically today is Thursday, but I did finally actually remember that Tuesday was my succession planning day only by the time I had time to actually do any succession planning, it was too late to take photographs. So instead I just delayed until today, but I’m still totally claiming that it happened on Tuesday. … Continue reading
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See How My Garden Grows: April 2014
I am having a terrible run with the The Garden Share Collectivelately. This time I actually knew it was the start of the month but apparently only imaged pressing publish on my post, so it’s now a tad late! This Month: I haven’t really done much in the garden lately. Almost nothing has been harvested, and … Continue reading
Weekend To-Do List – 29th March, 2014
Lately I’ve been struggling to find the energy to do anything around the house/garden. Ordinarily I don’t get a lot achieved during the week and everything gets left to the weekend, only for some reason lately that hasn’t really been working out. This weekend, however, I had nothing planned so I decided to write myself … Continue reading
Gardening / Self Sufficiency / Growing from Seed / In The Garden / Living Frugally / Succession Planting
{Succession Planting} Tuesday 18/3/14
I’ve been having trouble keeping up with the blog lately for a few different reasons. The first is the general malaise I get around now that means I tend not to harvest the plants I’ve spent so much time putting in. The second is that Mr J has just started at a new (special) school … Continue reading
See How My Garden Grows: March 2014
So apparently it is the start of March – I was firmly convinced that today was the 27th of February – and that means two things. The first is that it’s time to link up with The Garden Share Collective. The second is that I missed out on my Rescue This project during February. Oops. … Continue reading
Pear Season
I can tell that the pears in my garden must be getting pretty close to being ripe because I’m finding a whole lot of them that look like this Today I even managed to spot one of the culprits I didn’t have the heart to shoo it away because I’m pretty sure it’s sick. It … Continue reading
Deadheading Roses
As Summer withdraws and the early roses fade it’s definitely time to begin tidying them up. Normally when you dead head roses (as opposed to pruning them over Winter) you just cut back the stems where the roses have flowered and died back. Unless you want to leave them for rose hips. But because my … Continue reading
Guide to Espaliering
Today Diggers ran a workshop on how to espalier. I was all set to go to it – even toddled off and purchased some citrus to espalier – but left making a booking too late and the workshop was full. Ooops. Since I now have four citrus plants (and a dwarf apple) that will need … Continue reading
February in the Garden
Since we’re in February now, and I am apparently completely unable to keep up with my succession planting plans, I thought I’d go through what I’m meant to be doing in the garden in February. As was the case in January I’m utilising the Yates Month by Month garden guide from the library, and I’m … Continue reading
Project Raised Garden Bed – It’s Really Happening!
About a week ago I started poisoning the ‘grass’ (I consider it a weed, to be honest) that grows along the side of the house in preparation for obtaining my raised garden beds. Yesterday I finally got to order my raised garden beds – hurrah! I ordered the larger one in 2400x1000x860 in paperbark and … Continue reading
