So, a little earlier than I'd hoped, I'm officially considering myself a vegetable grower. (Decided that last year doesn't count as someone gave...
The perils of getting someone else to water your veg pots. I wasn't informative enough in my request for a favour and they went for the watering...
So, my GD tomato and 'Louisa' cucumber went a little crazy over the weekend. First thing Saturday morning they were in 'I can get away with...
With the frames filled and sanded, finally got around to stapling the remaining mesh to them and even found a gap in the weather to get a photo of...
The warm and sunny long weekend, followed by 3 and a half days of rain, seems to have the approval of the first batch of potato pots that have...
Another washout in Staffordshire, but I did remember to bring the 'lids' for the corral in, so I could break out the wood filler and tidy them up...
With the weather taking a considerable turn for the worst, I decided to fix the bodge job from Tuesday. One roll of adhesive 'hook and loop strip'...
After hand sieving another 55 litres of top soil, I started another giant pot of Sweet Candle seeds using my template for spacing - taking us into...
Despite the heat, I managed to get a fair bit done today. Finished the next stage of the corral build, by stapling the mesh around the edges. Next...
I ended up cutting the bottom off a 3litre pop bottle and using that. Worked pretty well for a freebie fix.[ATTACH]I started the Jazzy...
With the four finishing posts in place and the liner sealed top and bottom, the corral is finished enough to move it into it's spot in the garden....
Close of play on Corral Day 3. Main structure lined - mostly to protect that side of the decking boards from the elements, but also in case this...
As part of the negotiations with the old man about growing veg in the back garden, we decided to build a corral to hide the pots of carrots, peas...
Not as eye catching as some other posts in here but, after much umming and ahing and I ordered some potato fertiliser from eBay. If you told me a...
24 days in and the cucumber has outgrown the propagator lid. Currently debating whether to keep it in there, as it is heated, but with the lid off...
Not quite in the garden, but preparations for growing carrots (also for the first time) continued. Not that I'm one of those people who over...
10 days in and the lone cucumber is winning the race. It's safe to say one of the tomatoes is looking a lot less sorry for itself than the other....
It's not much, but it's a start![ATTACH]
After walking around the garden this morning to make note of this weekends jobs that need doing, I noticed the first little specks of colour for...
Mixed some of the masses of horticultural grit we've got left, after making an alpine trough for Mom's Christmas present, with the sieved compost...
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