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Perfect Pea Productivity!
We did a very quick harvesting from a couple of our pea and bean plants and the results were surprisingly positive. We only have a few snow pea plants and a short row of maincrop (kelvedon wonder) peas plus a few broad bean plants. The other day we nipped up quickly to the plot and…
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Bee Amazing Today!
I was taking photos in the garden of the flowers and fruits we are starting to see… But then I spotted something and I was inspired (who tutted?): So I made this: In case you are wondering, he appeared to be tasting the door to my diy polytunnel. I didn’t ask him why.
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I made a fairy garden!
Yes, I finally got it finished – we now have a fairy garden in the front and it lights up at night. You may remember a while ago I mentioned I’d started making some furniture for my fairy garden and I was having problems with the pond and the neighbour’s cat? Well the cat broke…
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We have a toad – and I’m too excited about it
This isn’t the post I was going to do for today but I’m so excited I had to share my news. We were up at the allotment today, working hard and I was pulling weeds at one side of the fence. The lady in the plot next door doesn’t weed much so it gets difficult.…
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Little time for rest in the summer
Please tell me I’m not the only one finding it hard to ‘stop’ in the summer! Weeds keep growing, plants need tended to, grass needs cut, house to be cleaned, days out, teenager to keep busy….on and on it goes. Hard work looks like it’s paying off on the plot though: For the first time…
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We made it to the Nairn Show – we enjoyed it but not without concerns
It was a scorching hot day on Saturday 27th July which was when the Nairn show was on so we decided to go along to it. It’s a farmers show so lots of animals, smells, noises and interesting things to look at, but something did concern me. I will be putting a video together which…
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I accidentally lied – and rain boobs!
You may be wondering what on earth I lied about and what the heck are rain boobs, so allow me to explain. Hear me out. A while ago I put up a post saying it would be the last polytunnel update. If you don’t know the situation, I built a DIY polytunnel out of scrap…
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Allotment improvements
We’ve been working pretty hard in the allotment and the progress is really beginning to show, at least to me it is. This is how the brassica area looked before our two visits last week: A big job and there is a third row to the right which you can’t quite see but believe me,…
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One day in a photo gallery
I did a few things yesterday, from picking fruit, walking the dog and getting swooped by some seriously aggressive seagulls so I thought I’d share some of it with you. Firstly, the garden. There have been a lot of summer raspberries which have been great and I am finally getting bees visiting the garden. I…
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The growing, the harvesting and then comes the processing
It’s one thing to grow your own but I can’t be the only one who finds processing what I’ve grown takes so much of my time at this bountiful time of the year. Dearest Son and I have managed more trips to the allotment than usual this week and have been catching up on some…
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It’s the little things
Don’t you find that day to day, it’s the little things which bring you the most happiness? To be clear here, I’m putting family and health to the side as they are pretty major things in my mind. I’m also not including wealth – have you seen how miserable the truly wealthy look these days?…
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The plants, me or the neighbour’s cat?
Who has been the most ‘productive’ this weekend? I hadn’t planned on doing a ton of stuff this weekend as I just wanted to relax after finishing the home-schooling but apparently, I can’t sit still. I’ve been doing some sewing/repairing/knitting of various things but I’ll show you them at a later time when I actually…
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