Big cover up
When I last looked a couple of days ago the forecasts didn’t suggest we would be getting any frosts over the next few days. However, I noticed this morning that…
An experiment at germinating tomato seeds
I usually sow our tomato seeds at the beginning of April. This year was no different as I sowed our seeds on 08 April. We don’t have any heating at…
Gardening cycles
Nature works in cycles and we gardeners work along with this. We sow, plant, harvest and store our crops until the growing cycle starts again and the cycle is repeated.Our…
All gardening and no blogging
We've had a lovely few days weather wise for the middle of April. It's given us chance to do some serious gardening but that leaves much less time for blogging.…
Things heated up
The weather warmed up last week and so did our gardening activities which were more or less confined to the allotment. It's now one of the busiest times of the…
A very oniony week
Last week the weather, once again, influenced how we spent the week.It was showery and cold so for some of the week we spent time carrying out indoor tasks.We have…
Winter returns – gardening dilemma
We had some lovely mild sunny days towards the end of March giving us the warmest day of the year so far as the temperature reached 19.7°C or 67.5°F. However,…
Winter is back
After a brief spell of lovely weather, we are back to layering up again. We even had a flurry of snow which thankfully didn't last for very long. We haven't…