The garden

Shepherding

Time up in the wild flower meadow. Good to trample the seeds in, and trim the grass to give them…

10 months ago

Black Strawberry or Evil Olive?

Not your every day question about your life choices, but intriguing names of heritage tomatoes. Around the end of May…

12 months ago

Wise sayings number 6

As my old grandpappy never said. “When you want the hedge cut, boy, always choose a windy day. Or listen…

12 months ago

From a poor start…

..the fruits of the garden are now emerging in excess. A cold wet start to the season combined with slugs…

1 year ago

Man digging potatoes

Real slow television

1 year ago

The Willow and the Honeysuckle

You may recall a previous post about the weeping willow tree and the very fragrant unusual honeysuckle that overgrew, nay,…

1 year ago

Sweet peas..

Or more accurately, Mange Tout. The first of the season, sweet, succulent, full of taste, with every meal, between bread,…

1 year ago

There they were, now they’re not…

Bunnies that is. When we first came here, there were bunnies everywhere and evidence that the previous owners had tried…

1 year ago

The Heron’s dived in the pond…

Really? The Heron can’t dive, it can fly, so it can fly out of the pond. What’s the problem? My…

1 year ago

A tree to plant…

But first, where? Saw a likely spot but the willow was in the way and would cramp the style. The…

1 year ago