Wild Wild Strawberries
These are like little rubies in a sea of green leaves. The wild strawberries are fruiting and while…
Month: May 2009
Sweetpeas planted
These are of Cornish origin, the seed is a number of years old, but each year they give…
Butternut Squash Planted Out
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking…
Bean Poles Erected!
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
End of May is Good
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
Dust bin lid Can-o-Worms
Forget the “shower cap” you can buy from Wiggly Wigglers, it is hard to put on and it…
Earthing up Potatoes
A mixture of bad weather and a lot of late nights from work has meant that we have…
Blackcurrent has had a better time
This is a rather sad picture of the blackcurrent bush. I don’t quite know what is going wrong…
The Wild Bit
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May 2009
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
Tomatoes Tomatoes and a Flickr Find!
These are doing all very nice, all the millions that we have! As it happens, I found a…
Butternut Squash with BBC DigIn
The other week I noticed on the CBeebies website that Tom and Jack spend quite some time on…
First Rhuburb 09
Yum, our first pickings this year and it went very well with crumble and custard! Tom and Jack…
I Worry about the Sunflowers
I made a mistake and positioned this seed tray in the bedroom where I thought there would be…
Chillies and Peppers Looking Good
These were repotted a couple of weeks ago and I have since kept them in the south facing…
Courgettes from Freecycle and Killing Slugs
I saw courgette plants offered on our local Freecycle and so asked to have a couple and here…
We have this bit of concrete…
… in the corner of the garden that once had a shed on it. Unfortunatly the previous owners…
Rooster Potatoes Planted
I read my notes from last year and we left it a bit late for planting potatoes and…
Bad Fence
We have a nice area of decking, we can sit at the table, we can see the Clematis…
Dandelions Dandelions
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
Chillies and Peppers Repotted
These have been growing on the window sill for a little while and they are in desperate need…