I just wanted to come back and do a catch up post before Spring starts in earnest. I just fell out of the habit of blogging last year - the garden kept me so busy and with normal life resuming slowly month by month I felt my time was well spent growing and tending rather … Continue reading MIA
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January
Winter still hasn't really hit us hard here - but we have had much more frost and a few flurries of snow. The soil in the raised beds is solid and the lettuce and parsley had given up the ghost by the end of the month. The strawberries don't seem to notice or care about … Continue reading January
December
The first frosts arrived in December. Not many, but the odd morning of crisp white shimmer on the grass and bulbs. December is another month I rarely see the garden so it was lovely to be here. Feeding the birds, watching the skies full of clouds and rain. December would normally be a manic month, … Continue reading December
November
We have a cherry blossom tree in our garden, it's gorgeous but it's huge. This year growing so many vegetables and flowers has made us realise how much shade this tree throws onto the garden so we decided to give it a bit of a trim this year so towards the end of October we … Continue reading November
October
October was a funny old month. It felt warmer than September and despite the evenings drawing in we still spent some time out in the garden. We took a week off work at the beginning of October to do some tidying up in the garden - just starting to get everything ready for Autumn. We … Continue reading October
September – summer draws to a close
September was a good month in the garden but the weather didn't give us that final splurge of summer we sometimes get in England. The wind and rain didn't play a major role but neither did the sun. It was getting cooler every day and those balmy evenings we spent dead heading and mooching round … Continue reading September – summer draws to a close
May – Part Two
May was definitely a month of two halves for me. The first two weeks were spent in much the same way I'd spent April. Furloughed and spending most of my time in the garden. Everything was coming to life and starting to flower and it was a fabulous place to be. I'd stopped watching television … Continue reading May – Part Two
April – Part Three
Before I move on to May I wanted to explain a little more of my feelings about lockdown and what it meant for me. A little background to explain why my garden became my whole world in such a short space of time. I'm a hypochondriac. Not in the clinical sense, it's not a diagnosis … Continue reading April – Part Three
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