racing through the supermarket at breakneck speed yesterday I grabbed two boxes of poisonous green pellets that should ensure my newly-planted brassica collection doesn’t turn into a sacrifical lamb
as we rounded the bathroom cleaners corner I wondered what natural alternative there is (besides handpicking and squashing)
but for now, green poison it is
the powdery mildew is almost gone……never mind giving it a week to see what would happen….when I went out to water just a few hours later the leaves were mostly green
forgot to mention we also remade our paths this morning…….they’re actually just pavers that got chucked randomly onto the bare garden patch at the end of a very long day months ago, but they seemed to be more or less in an OK position, except that the gaps in between them have been increasing as [...]
We went away Thursday to Sunday. Not that long really, but so much happened in the garden.
For a start, it dried out and lots of plants are tinged yellow. Makes me realise my watering fanaticism has been justified (most conscientious mothers would sit with their family while eating a it’s-very-late-and-we-just-got-home dinner….this one couldn’t help [...]
in the rain
wearing a white dressing gown
planting gifted cucumber seedlings so they would make the most of the forecast-for-the-whole-day-gently-falling-drizzle
I think I’m hooked.
all planted out
with supports
I keep doing these things and thinking, “It’s really not that tricky, is it?”
A year ago I wasn’t growing seeds from scratch and it *seemed* a big idea in my head, but when you take baby steps along the way, you gather momentum and you start running to catch up with those [...]
we ate our sweetcorn crop last night
15 seeds planted (I only know that because J12 planted them and he remembers Things Like That)
12 germinated
11 got corn, one got two ears
12 corn cobs
one meal
(and a photo from last year!)
weeded both vege patches single-handedly
the children knew to thank me for letting them build their mud house while I worked
TODAY
noticed we really need to ge the butter bean seedlings planted out…and the snowpeas and green peas wouldn’t hurt from being platned where they are to bloom either
that means making a frame of some kind for [...]
