The garden is in bloom.
You only have to blink at this time of year and the garden can get away from you. By which I mean that the weeds suddenly.....almost over...
Springtime again!
Leo Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” And how very true that is. I am well behind on some of the...
Garden update - winter is here.
It's the 1st of June, therefore the end of Autumn and the beginning of winter, and don't we know it! This last couple of weeks have been...
Hooked on books.....or, you can't pay for everything with beans.
Anyone who knows me and has visited our home therefore knows that I love books. Novels, biographies, poetry, travel, photography,...
Autumn brings changes...
As I write this blog post, we are about to step into the final month of Autumn (or Fall for those in the USA) and Winter is just around...
Being prepared.
Firstly let me just say that life is good and it's a great point in time to be alive. Lots of positive things are happening in the world...
Making the most of our produce
February already - the last month of summer and the garden is booming and blooming. We've had a lot of meals based around zucchini and...
Rainwater collection...finally
It's been a long time between blog posts, but then again during the winter there's not a lot happening in the garden. Spring, however is...
Pickles, chutney and tea
As mentioned in an earlier post, we have been making pickles and relish/chutney from our glut of lemon cucumbers (many thanks to our...
We reap what we sow....sometimes....gardening update.
It's been a while since my last blog post. My apologies for that. We are now almost at the end of the month of April, in the latter part...
