Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have really seen enough of the real snowdrops, this small flower shows that life is starting to come back. Roll on spring time, but for now we are happy to see these first signs of a new year. [...]
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31 Jan
Snowdrops
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have really seen enough of the real snowdrops, this small flower shows that life is starting to come back. Roll on spring time, but for now we are happy to see these first signs of a new year. [...]
23 Dec
It is Finally Tree O' Clock
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for that I was unable to find any of the trees available. A week later I happened to be a in garden centre and I noticed a whole load of Tree O’ Clock trees looking all a bit [...]
23 Dec
It is Finally Tree O' Clock
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for that I was unable to find any of the trees available. A week later I happened to be a in garden centre and I noticed a whole load of Tree O’ Clock trees looking all a bit [...]
3 Sep
Chocolate Cosmos
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last month they wrote to tell me that there would be a delay, and this month they arrived. Unfortunately they arrived while we were away for a couple of days and then I could not get out to [...]
26 Aug
Sweet Potatoes Slowly Grow
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the BBC DigIn scheme. Two things are clear, Sweet Potatoes are very much courgette like (and we are still under huge courgette load here!) in how they grow. The other, they take a long long time to grow [...]
6 Jun
Herbs in grow bags
This is something I spotted in BBC Gardners World magazine last year and it has taken until now to put it into practice. You can plant either herbs or salad leaves or a bit of both. We went with herbs and both Tom and Jack choose which ones to have (from a list) and sowed [...]
28 May
Butternut Squash Planted Out
The butternut squash BBC Digin seeds did well. We planted five and all five have come up looking very good. These were planted in a cardboard egg box and it was a great success. As I have discussed in an earlier post, we tried starting these outside but with all the rain they got rather [...]
19 Apr
Great Lavender Flowers
This is the BBC Garderners World lavender, just one of the five plants that we have had for a quite some time. They came as small plug plants, repotted indoors, repotted out of doors, over winter, and now it is time to see what they will do. Unfortunaly one of the plants did not make [...]
19 Apr
A Bit of Life in the Passion Flower
These are the BBC Gardners World passion flowers that I sent off for last year just before the winter. They have made their way through the wet and cold of winter and now I am eagly watching to see if/when the green shoots appear. At present, they all still look rather dead and not that [...]
