No home grown sprouts or parsnips but carrots and leeks and kale harvested today for the meal tomorrow.
We store our apples in our porch which is unheated. Every few weeks I go through them and remove any damaged ones which go out into the orchard...
Agree with the others. the aerial roots do look messy but that is what the plant does. If you find that some are very very brown with no growing...
@Jess91 why do you remove the leaves from the hellebores?
Today we cut different twigs/branches from our every greens to make decorations in the house. Then cut a large branch from our blue spruce to be...
@lizzie27 we collect our different apples and most of them keep for many months. We usually find that they keep until March/April. We sort them...
No but we do take the stamps from postage that is delivered (!!!!). We used to take these to the Oxfam charity which now has closed down here. But...
We pruned back a magnolia which has been in situ for decades and having grown very well but coming too near the house. With all the storms we have...
Had a peacock butterfly in the garden room for some days. Managed to catch it today and put it outside. Worried that it wouldn't do well in the...
A grey drizzle day and it isn't even Sunday!
Planted out some salad seedlings in the polytunnel this morning. Picked some kale leaves and the last pak choi from the tunnel as well. Our...
@pete we try to grow orchid species and not hybrids. Many years ago a friend had some hybrids and was very poorly and asked us to take his plants....
Our Cymbidium giganteum was purchased 3 years ago with just one back bulb. It is now flowering for the first time and how beautiful it is....
I shouldn't have said it was a chore. But writing cards to so many friends who are suffering like we are it has been difficult...so the word chore.
Chore over! Written all the cards that need to be sent and the ones that will be hand delivered. Then great surprise postie delivered much awaited...
Our electricity went down at 6pm. We were very fortunate that we had an early dinner so had some warm food. We were also very lucky compared to so...
A male blackcap on the feeders today. Lovely to see him. We do hear one singing out in the garden during the year but so hard to see in amongst...
Ours are planted in the soil in the tunnel. They are given a fresh amount of compost but not watered during the winter.
@ClematisDbee we planted ours alongside a huge bamboo pole. This did rot away 2 years ago so a new arch was made using old wood. The clematis...
@ClematisDbee we do nothing! We are one of those gardeners that don't follow the "rules". It was planted and left to what it wanted to do many...
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