Archive for March, 2007

they grew!
March 31, 2007

Look at that! My first ever Grown In A Seed Tray seeds. They’ve only been in for five days and some of them are sprouting wildly. OK, maybe *wild* is a bit of an exxageration…but if you click on the picture, you WILL see little green shoots.

There is something about planting some seeds and waiting [...]

beaut-erfly
March 26, 2007

J12, with her interest in all things beautiful, planted flower seeds….her sense of order compelled her to make little lines in the tray and add name cards. A *scarecrow* to keep the birds away may end up attracting them as it is, in reality, a beautiful butterfly.

PS This was the inspiration I needed to get [...]

there’ll be carrots for dinner tonight
March 23, 2007


overwhelmed
March 17, 2007

the teepee structure fell down in the big storm(I was intending asking Father Bear to help me tie it down at the weekend, but the wind beat me to it)
it squashed a lettuce
never mind
I had an industrious urge and picked up The Permaculture Home Gardenthe intention was to find the next thing to make a [...]

*sigh*
March 15, 2007

Those seeds that were just waiting to be planted……are still waiting. They’re not going to germinate in their packets now are they? Better get them into some nice seed-raising mix!
Am I the only blogging gardener who is Full of Good Intentions?

WOOHOO!!!!
March 12, 2007

Yesterday my good friend (who thankfully taught me how to do hyperlinks!!!!) emailed me…and even rang me IRL….to party about the Ultimate Blog Party…..she had the FANTASTIC news I had won a PriZe!!! YIPPEE. This little blog that only started a couple of weeks ago…..by a blogger who has only been blogging for not even [...]

Work Done #1
March 12, 2007

Well things didn’t pan out quite as planned…so I’ve learnt my lesson to just post an entry *after* the work is done!

The potatoes are hiding underneath those poking-out-of-the-ground-sticks, which you can see if you click on the photo. The teepee (which ended up being made out of ti-tree, including one branch a neighbour cut down [...]

A Bare Patch
March 11, 2007

Inspired by my little pot-planting with the mosquitos at dusk last night, I’m ready to tackle the “side garden”. We dug an outline for it a year or so ago and since then the grass clippings have been piling up there!I’m really keen on Woodrow’s permaculture ideas……I knew I wanted to make a teepee with [...]

A Few Days in the Life of Mint
March 11, 2007

Garden Progress:
Yesterday I bought some potting mix and compost. Oh it hurt to *buy* those things!!
Two days ago I had bought a mint seedling and a coriander.
Oh yeah, you know how mint is impossible to kill and it is rampant and will take over your whole garden if you don’t put it in a pot? [...]

Sunflower @ Sunset
March 9, 2007

We plant sunflowers every year ~how could you go through a summerwithout having them to smile at anyonewho takes the time to stop and *appreciate*?