It’s taken weeks of pouring over seed catalogues, looking through existing seed stocks and staring into space……that is what it must have looked like I was doing but really I was envisioning next years vegetable garden, borders and containers and all the wonderous colour combinations, tasty morsels and frothy florals… Read More »The Seed Order ~ finally complete!
It is 10.30am and on a normal working day I would be thinking about my first podcast. There is no point today – I wouldn’t be able to hear anything over the cacophonous leaf-sucker-upper (technical term) – one of the least pleasant of the Autumn noises. It has stopped –… Read More »Podcast of the Week – maybe with a # preceding it…?
“A bit ambitious”, I thought as I set off with this load towards the pile of woody material that was my destination. Would you believe I made it? Neither would I, but I did. Slowly but surely over roughly (very rough-ly) 350m of turf. Nobody saw my victory dance…..probably for… Read More »Whatsinmywheelbarrow ~ 7/12/2014 ~ A barrow full of sunshine (and rose
prunings)
I chopped up the grapevine prunings nice and small so that they will compost down so much quicker than if I had left them long and whippy. They are perfect for the compost heap because they are woody but still have a bit of juicy sap in them. I’m getting… Read More »#whatsinmywheelbarrow – 3/12/2014 – grapevine prunings
It burns. It burns like nothing else except how a proper burn burns……. and then it burns some more. I tried all sorts of things to ease the burning but nothing worked. Nothing, that is, until I stuck my whole face in the chest freezer. Finally, amongst the frozen gooseberries… Read More »Whatever you do, do not get WD40 in your eye
SAD? Not really at the moment, thank you, I’m fine! Oh, seasonal affective disorder. I have been getting it between late January and sometime in March without fail for the last few years, but I try to be armed and ready for it because I refuse to be beaten down. … Read More »Sometimes you have to make your own sunshine
