Gardening

Garden

June 22, 2011
Garden

Mainly a picture post showing how much my garden has being appreciating the rain. June 2 June 22 – and everything has gone a little bit crazy.

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Eek!

May 25, 2011
Eek!

It’s been really windy here over the last few days, and unfortunately my mini greenhouse (which had been moved for the BBQ) was a bit of a casualty. I didn’t hear it fall over, but I did glance out the window and had to go rushing out to try and right it. A lot...

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Plant Progress

May 11, 2011
Plant Progress

I’m now about halfway through planting out, and so had a worrying few days with wilting tomatoes until I realised they were in the direct sun all day so just really needed a drink at night. I might be one of the few people who was quite glad to see the return of rain...

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Courgettes

April 29, 2011
Courgettes

I’ve had two elderflower martinis so I’m not sure how useful this will be. But I did get quite a bit of sewing done first. My garden is growing very well at the moment, the courgettes are now in outside pots as they got a bit too big for the greenhouse, I’m hoping it won’t...

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Lots of Tomatoes

April 26, 2011
Lots of Tomatoes

It’s all going well in the garden (when I don’t leave things to overheat in the greenhouse in the hot sun). After losing nearly all the tomatoes I planted the first time around, the second batch seem to be a lot happier so they now all have nice new pots to spread out in....

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Potting On

April 13, 2011
Potting On

The courgettes are taking over – they grow so fast and so big but it’s too early for them to go out of the greenhouse as it’s still pretty cold at night. Everything is looking pretty good – I have 100s and 1000s and jalapenos, which are getting their secondary leaves. These are the...

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Enjoy the Weather

April 9, 2011
Enjoy the Weather

The weather was beautiful today. So I got up early and rushed around and now I’m really tired.

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