And breathe…
I am very behind this year. It’s very clear from the state of my plots and the general lack of fruit flies/the distinct whiff of damp compost in the kitchen […]
Shuttle service
There’s a lot of moving going on. In and out and in and out of the greenhouse and trying not to trip over the door each time. I filled two […]
I am a passenger. And I ride and I ride…
There really is no end to slugs this year. The big ones have vanished, but kale, pak choi and brussels are over-run with little ones. And their droppings. Why won’t […]
A skirt full of beans
This is seed-saving season. At this time of year a dress/tunic over jeans is my favourite plot-wear. Primarily because it makes a handy bag for bean harvesting, and for catching beans […]
Warning: contains swearing
I put 4 oca tubers in a 40L bag, late last year as part of the experiment to see what difference it made to plant late. Lesson 1: late planting […]
All scaled up!
Not me, my fruit bushes. On closer inspection my redcurrants, apple and particularly quince are furred up. Their branches are infested with little brown cases, some worse than others, each of […]
Last post of 2015
Christmas was wonderful. Christmas lunch likewise – though with one of us a vegetarian and one of us very much not, we had a few re-runs with leftover seeded pistachio […]
Houston, the oca is down
Those were pretty hard frosts. Anything that isn’t hardy has slumped, most noticeably the drifts of nasturtiums. And the oca. Last year it went down in stages, with the ‘killing […]
