I don’t feel as if I’ve had a chance to really enjoy the spring bulb and fruit blossom display. Daffodils finished a while ago after flowering earlier than usual, the tulips put on a bit of a poor show this year (the few blooms we did have now spoilt by yesterdays heavy downpour and high wind). In the [...]
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Pretty Primula
Posted by Karen on April 30, 2012
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Accidental Sunflowers
I adore sunflowers, especially the giant varieties. I grow them every year, always hoping to grow one just that little bit taller or with a bigger bloom than the year before. Once they’re past their best, rather than pull them out I leave them in situ, all through autumn and winter, right through to late spring. The flower heads eventually [...]
Posted by Karen on April 15, 2012
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July in the Garden Smallholding
The garden is in full swing with frequent mini harvests of potatoes, carrots, beets, peas, soft fruits, onions, beans and squash (I could go on) providing plenty for meals, which of course generates a great sense of achievement and pride. A few days of much-needed rain gave the kitchen garden the boost it so desperately needed in order to spring [...]
Posted by Karen on July 31, 2011
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Grumpy with Stumpy Sunflowers
I’m so disappointed with my sunflowers this year, they’re embarrassingly short and the flowers are titchy. Just pathetic really. Usually I manage to grow very tall plants with dinner plate-sized blooms, just how sunflowers should be. I grew my favourite ‘giants’ from new seed, just as I always do so I can’t start pointing the finger of damnation thataway. Hmmm. [...]
Posted by Karen on July 25, 2011
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A Beautiful Sunny Weekend
The weather is utterly gorgeous at the moment, brilliant blue sky and wall to wall sunshine. The weekend was spent pottering around the garden, watering seed trays, sowing rows of carrots, planting herbs and dining al fresco with evening drinks by candlelight, entertainment provided by bats with their magnificent aerial display. Everything looks so much better in the sunshine, especially the [...]
Posted by Karen on April 11, 2011
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Pinching out Sweet Pea
I started sowing sweet pea at the end of February, an old-fashioned highly scented variety which will be allowed to scramble over an arch in the veg garden. I pinched out the growing tips of my young plants a few days ago. Why? I hear you say, well in a nutshell it’s all to do with hormones. [...]
Posted by Karen on April 1, 2011
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Spring Flowers. What’s Your Favourite?
Fans of the simple but very beautiful daffodil will agree with me that every garden should be home to at least a few daffodil bulbs. You can’t really go wrong with this tough old bulb, shove them in the ground during the most miserable months and pretty much forget about them. Then, as if by magic, you’re rewarded for [...]
Posted by Karen on March 26, 2011
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Ready Steady Sow!
I can’t wait to get cracking for the growing season ahead, I have Charlotte seed potatoes chitting away, a second attempt at peas and broad beans (potted up undercover) and my impatient fingers are still itching to sow more seed. Our soil is not a hospitable place right now, it’s far too wet and cold for [...]
Posted by Karen on January 30, 2011
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Flower Power
Chickens and fragile flowers, hmmm, sadly not a great mix. Even though our back garden is fairly well groomed for chicken owners, we are reluctant to plant any new and unestablished perennials, or, dare we say, flimsy annuals for that matter. Gulp. They just would not last 5 minutes with chickens on the hunt for [...]
Posted by Karen on May 19, 2009
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Colour of the Season. Yellow!
Its all very sunshine yellow out there in the garden smallholding at the moment. The Forsythia, daffodils and spring primroses (or should that be primulas?) are all trying to compete with each other for the best and brightest shade of jaune. I just adore daffodils and was pleased to see a good number of them poking [...]
Posted by Karen on March 25, 2009
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