Had a haircut?

Not me the lawn, its been laid now for just over two weeks and the girls have been fantastic about the fact that they still aren’t allowed onto it. If we had bought the full price turf that was in its prime I expect that they would be by now, but it cost us half [...]

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Globe Artichokes

On the odd occasion I do get to stray away from only planting the things that we eat as a family and get to have a ’splurge’ on a packet of seeds. This years little treat was a packet of Globe Artichoke seeds.
Something I have fallen in love with ever since an exchange trip to [...]

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Peas in

Tallest seen here posing with the row of peas that she helped plant up and stake in.
We’ll go back to the allotment tomorrow to have a recce to see how many succumed to the bloody pigeons that seem to wait undetected while us foolish gardeners plant the fruits of our labours into the ground, only [...]

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A little off topic but still a worthwhile venture…

Having just written the title to this post, I now realise that I have already touched on the whole ‘getting the garden children friendly’
It is with sheer surprise that I can say as of yesterday (when I would have posted it but was too pooped) that the turfs are now laid and are currently undergoing [...]

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Err…I’ve changed my mind…can I have my garden back please?

The mini digger has gone now, but the distruction caused is still widely evident. I don’t have a picture of the pad for the conservatory that Hubby and Mr Next-Door did the day before yesterday, but needless to say that it is the possibly the only part of the garden (now) safe to walk on!
Its [...]

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Rhubarb (but no custard)

This was one crown of Rhubarb planted into the garden two years ago now, there are at the last count, now seven crowns! Once I have cut off the flower spikes a bit of separating needs to be done, this isn’t the ideal time to get on with this but if I don’t do it [...]

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Did I say I was overzealous?

Okay, so leading on from my last post, I was extoling the virtues of having a mini-me on hand to help with all the sowing that has to be done at this time of year…what I omitted was the anecdote that goes along with the last lot of peas.
The Tallest and I were out in [...]

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Successional Sowing

As the Tallest grows older, I have very quickly realised that she can be a real help when it comes to all the sowing that needs to be done at this time of year.
As she is only three the amount of time that she is engaged by planting seeds is limited, and to my surprised [...]

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Sorry about that!…

Okay, we haven’t slipped between the ever growing cracks in the concrete behind the house, its just that the computer has died, and is being looked at to see if it can be repaired.
I’ve been lent my Dads laptop (thankyou Dad) so I thought that I just ought to say that we are still here [...]

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Ffffrosty mornings

All these frosty mornings, although not helping the frugal use of wood, has definately had a palpable effect on the earth at the allotment, there is a definate breaking up of the larger lumps.
I wish that I could say that I was responsible for the largest part of the plot having been dug over, but [...]

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