Last Rhubarb of 2008
Been meaning to pick this for ages, our last lot of rhubarb for the year. Apart from Rhubarb…
Month: August 2008
Blackcurrant Bush Pruned
The book says to cut back to two buds at least one third of the bush, plus any…
Baby Sunflower Child
This is all unexpected. Tonight I discovered a new small flower on one of the sunflowers which has…
w18 Amaranthus is focal point
I am really pleased with this Amaranthus stuff. It seems quite robust and during the time now when…
Plants for dry places from Gardeners World
The front garden is nice with all the wild flowers that we have sown, but this year they…
w18 sunflowers are grinning
I suppose these need to be cut down at sometime, save some seed and sort out what to…
Worms keep chomping on the scraps
I am quite happy with how the worms are going. They are on the second layer and are…
w18 Potatoes dug up
The great things about potatoes, you put them in and they sprout. They all look nice and green,…
w17 We Eat A Chillie
One day it was small, and the next day it more than doubled in size. So we picked…
w17 Should dig up those potatoes
We don’t know what type of potato they are, but I think now we are in august it…
w17 Sweetpeas at ‘the side’
I still have so much to do to the “bit down the side” but money and time seem…
w17 Lavender cuttings keep going
These are my own little babies! Out of I think five pots, we now have two left, each…
w17 Amaranthus starts to flower!
I really don’t know what these plants are, and I forget how come I bought them and planted…
w17 – Sunflowers at the front
It’s windy and rainy…. which means the sunflowers at the front are a little bit sideways. But still,…
August 2008
The time has nearly come to do something about the grass in the front. It has come a…
w17 – Sunflowers finished in the back
“Didn’t they do well?” I am quite pleased, and now we have a load of massive sunflower heads…
w17 – Sweetpeas
Not too bad seeing as I didn’t do anything at all apart from plant these. Sweet Peas from…
Beans Beans Beans
We didn’t grow the runner beans in order to achieve a massive great harvest, but what we do…