House plant fertiliser February 10, 2010

A cheap pick-me-up – when you rinse your milk bottles, pour the water on your houseplants instead of down the drain.

Time to buy seed… January 26, 2010

A friend and gardening buddy has just directed me to this wonderful seed site – http://www.realseeds.co.uk/herbs.html

I can’t wait to get going on the plan!

Spring planning January 14, 2010

Looking longingly at seed catalogues.  I always find that the thought of the work I’ll have to do to clear the scrub before planting is rather off-putting.  However, I have the promise of a w/e working party with a chain saw…

I need:

• More hedging to fill in the front hedge (something with berries)
• Vegetables that the family will eat – potatoes; onions; garlic; leeks; brocolli (with netting); runner/french beans; chard; courgettes; Jerusalem artichokes (for me!); raspberries.
• More ferns
• More bird/butterfly attractors

Jobs to do include:

• digging & composting veg patch (raised beds?)
• hacking back laurels (chain saw)
• clearing left side of garden
• re-doing herb bed (new ground)
• removing stupid ‘hedge to nowhere’ and reclaiming for veg patch – potatoes to start with
• re-glazing lean-to

And lots of others.  I need a full-time garden aide.  Any offers?

Resolutions January 4, 2010

For 2010

• get fitter
• eat more greens
• grow more greens
• make some raised beds
• get husband into the garden
• pass my MSc!
• get a job

For ‘sometime’

• start keeping hens
• start keeping bees
• sell a lot more cakes