Bye Bye Baby

It was time...it had been looking at me for 2 weeks now...I had been admiring it from afar, but to all good pumpkins come their f…

Successes and failures

I think there is a tendency in blogland to only share our victories and our good news. But behind the scenes there are other hard…

A garden feast

We went away for the weekend to a little cabin on the beach to celebrate my 40th birthday...it was a time of reading, walks, beac…

Eating local...

I try to plan one meal completely from our garden once a week, more if our plants are yielding lots! Tonight we had this to work …

Down ~ but not defeated!

I put up a good fight, I really did. My opponent was greater than me and worked at night too! Today I finally gave up and pulled …

A hammock for my pumpkin

These are lazy days compared to what has been over the last few months. The sun beats down, I water, I help climbers to find the …

It makes it all worthwhile!

As my post below talk about harvesting all the gems from my mildew infected plants I thought I needed a good news story for my re…

Mildew - aaargh

About a week ago I noticed that some of my squash plants had the white telltale spots of milddew. I started spraying them with co…

A promise of things to come

I was always told not to count my chickens before they hatch, but when I walk around my garden in the morning there is so much to…

A wheelbarrow full - almost

It's so good to be able to take from the garden after all we have put into it over the last few months. Today when I got home…

Jungle gardening

In one of my favourite gardening books - Jane's Delicious Garden - I came across this term...Jungle Gardening. Because of our…

That's it! I am officially done.

Today I officially planted my last seeds - 4 watermelon seeds and 18 corn. We have no more garden space to plant. Thus far we hav…

Morning visitors

I love going into my garden early in the morning. I am normally up from 5.30 for my excercise session and there is still dew and …

Squash flowers

All my squashes (butternut, gem, pumpkin and courgette) are flowering so nicely. I have seen a cooking program where you stuff an…

Jack and the bean stalk

It's so great to watch our veggies growing. Sometimes I catch myself having a "moment" when I just stand at watch.…