Bloomin' Lovely - Winter

I know its been a long time between posts, but seeing that this is a blog mostly about vegetable gardening and there hasn't been anything being produced in the vegetable garden there really hasn't been anything to write about. Now that spring has arrived the plants in...

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Growing Asparagus

Asparagus is easily one of my favourite vegetables, and the best thing is that it is also one of the easiest veggies to grow and will supply you with delicious spears for twenty years or more if properly cared for.   Bare rooted asparagus crowns can be bought from most...

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Finished ...........Finally

I started it last winter and put it away when the weather started to warm up. I took it up again three months ago and have been working on it almost every night for two or three hours at a time. There are eighty 15 centimetre (or there about's) squares made up of thirteen different...

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If You Thought Terracotta Pots Were Just For Plants

You may need to think again. Below are some pretty, practical and creative uses for terracotta pots with hardly a plant in sight. The Whoot A pretty shabby chic bird bath that could also be used to hold a candle, pot pourri,  soaps or jewellery. Miss Rhea's Sweet...

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The Great Pumpkin Harvest

Well, maybe great is a bit of an exaggeration, but compared to last years harvest of one minuscule butternut, this years harvest was indeed great. 10.4kg of Butternut and 4.8kg of an unknown volunteer. As you can see in the photo one of the pumpkins has split, I...

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Snowy - At Last

After many seeds sown and a few false starts I finally managed to get a "Snowy" eggplant to grow this year. It started to flower, but never set any fruit or so I thought. Look at what I discovered this morning when I went down to the vegetable garden. To say I got excited...

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Garden Update - March 2017

Well, here we are, March is over and the first month of autumn has gone, but March was a very warm month and it has only been over the last week that the weather has finally started to cool down.  As I expected pickings from the garden have been small, both in size...

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