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whether the weather be hot or whether the weather be cold
Happy EasterI've been watching gardening videos courtesy of the vege club library, living vicariously. The only sort of gardening for this week end I suspect. Pouring doesn't describe the rain, it's...
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Hidden treasure
Lets not waste time with all the reasons for not posting, or wring hands over computer melt downs, and a forgotten email address, oh how the list goes on. As someone said to me this week, "Never mind...
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and the winner is...
Irrelevant to the photos, and today's title, I've somehow won a couple of flower carpet roses from a local nursery. I 'll be off to collect them on Monday once the weekend crowds are gone. No skill...
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small beginnings middles and ends
Amongst the strawberry bed a beautiful pink flowering plant. No idea what the strawberries will be like; the mother plant was a non-descript looking gift but one with great promise: I knew that because...
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made to measure
November, the month of new toys. I 'ordered' the shade house to fit the little spot outside the tunnel house and fit it does. It reduces the tunnel-house-transition-to-garden to literally one step, out...
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tiger stripes
Yeah I know I'm really selling it with the photo. It's top corner of the section. Former neighbours, many years ago, planted large trees hugging up to the hedge line. A potentially sad story of...
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you say potayto and I say potahto
How quickly the annual vege club Great Potato Weigh-In comes around. My buckets had been tossed out of the tunnel house during a clean up and the plants fared rather badly in the ensuing weather. It...
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Christmas pickings
It doesn't mean anything to you, that path and the strip of ground beside it. They shouldered the broken concrete from the big dig, which is now being re-assimilated as back-fill for the retaining...
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embarrassing gardens
The world could be divided between those who are fascinated by Embarrassing Bodies and those who aren't. My limited research sides with the principle that opposites attract and I suggest that people...
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glasshouse envy and brag shots
Greetings from the sunny south. For the record, I am growing the runner beans in the tunnel house and what a success. However, as is often the way, it may be a trade off. The little cucumber beside...
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fear factor
The distance between what I envisage for the garden, and what is actually there, has never seemed so great. Part of the problem is all the ideas on hold that are milling around in my mind; but it is so...
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Recollections
There was a gap between taking the photos, and the writing of it this week, and I've already moved on to other things, but let me dredge my mind. Why did I take these photos?The cucumbers seemed like a...
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criminal minds
There's a couple of new things happening in the garden at the minute.Partners in crime, here they are high-tailing it to a freshly dug patch of ground. They don't realise at all that they are pets...
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New Tricks
I've just re-learnt how to post a blog again. There are a few projects I have managed to capture on the camera over the last year. Just as well because as we head into the coldest two weeks of winter,...
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Old friend
I planted crocus and freesia bulbs in pots by the back door in Autumn. Nothing to see above ground but the promise below has given me a lot of enjoyment. They look beautiful already. A winter photo...
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Meet the Glasshouse
We put the glasshouse in about September 2016. Lest that sound like a one-off event, it took about a month; fetching it from the original site was a job in itself. Mr B put a wood foundation down first...
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Have we got any flowers?
It may have made 17 degrees today but it has been more like 7 more oft than not; a very cold winter. However, the house now sports 2 functioning wood burners. Happily the wood piles both fall and...
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Spring garlic
Last years garlic crop hanging in the laundry. Could be just enough to take us through to January which would be a first. We usually run out. I was disappointed in the size of the bulbs but size...
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Wonderland
I'm feeling a little bit like the white rabbit, "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date" except that I'm not late, not yet. It's just that I meant to post these photos before I went on holiday...
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Grand Designs New Zealand
New extension on chickie house was possibly the only Grand Design that has ever come in under budget and without a time blow-out. So there will be no need for awkward squirming and prevarication when...
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Taking my time
Today I decided I wasn't going to be hurried. I don't like the feeling of always rushing. Today I didn't interrupt my own work most of the time, and I let things wait for me. I felt my job slip back...
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The law of increase
I remind myself from time to time that the most useful photos for me on any blog are the 'before' and 'after' or at least consecutive images of progress/growth. They give me so much visual information...
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you say tomato
I have got the camera going at last. Left it out one night in the garden and had to dry it, and the case, off. After that it was willing to download the photos again so perhaps it had just needed a...
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Photo round-up part one
Here's a partial glimpse of the surfeit of apple cucumbers. I had 3 plants, which was 2 too many, besides which the 3rd was a Triffid that put all its growth into a glasshouse takeover and only burst...
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photo round-up complete
A long overdue photo, Bill contemplates his chilled chocolate stout, his secret-simon-santa gift that was much appreciated. This is a 500g punnet of pesto. The playing card is for perspective. I had a...
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