It has been a weekend of un-seasonable warmth, more than the usual for this time of May. My main jobs have been trying to keep the plants from wilting and dying in 35c heat within the greenhouse. Apart from that, I have been making progress at my Grandad’s place putting in more rows of carrots, [...]
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Heat
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May-hem
May has been quite a busy gardening month for me, what with expanding into my Grandad’s garden with all of the extra plants that I no longer had room for. A lot of the time was spent building the new boxes and beds and I ended up adding more to the box that went under [...]
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Monday update
Been really busy this week so Lot’s of pictures and not so much talking! – What a relief! We were lucky enough to get acouple new arrivals to the garden this week. Firstly a spearmint plant kindly given to us by our friends Claire and Dom. It’s going to get a good spot in the [...]
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Expansion
I had been speaking to my Grandad the other day and he suggested that I also use his garden for my overflow of plants. Needless to say I didn’t need to be asked twice. He has a good bit of space in his back garden which is south facing and has a giant wall at [...]
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My first crop of the season!
Only some Corriander – but a good batch none the less. These were cut from the hydroponics…
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The canvas is complete
A few busy days in the garden and the canvas is now complete and ready for some colour and maybe even some vegetables. The wife woke up the other Sunday and immediately joined the “Good Ideas Club”. She wanted the remaining fir tree in the bottom centre flower bed taken down and dug up. Great, [...]
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Sit back and watch
I do like May. Sometimes March and April can be really hard work in the garden. Having only moved into our cottage in January we had so much to do! May is time to slow down a little and watch everything grow. This is the month the greenhouse lives up to it’s name and starts [...]
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RIP Green Bush, Tomatos reach their final location
The Gourgette ‘Green Bush’ has died! I’m not really too sure of the cause though, it has had exactly the same treatment as the ‘Midnight’ which is doing great but has just keeled over – the stem has gone yellow and the plant can no longer support itself. Ah well, it will free up some [...]
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Last year was a mess!
Found some pictures the other day of the state of the raised bed from last season, I’d forgotted how much of an over crowded mess it became! Beans were successful though…
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