Tranquil Thursday
As you’re all probably aware by now, my husband and i put our first veggie patch this year. We’ve had things go to seed, prolific peas, stunted zucchinis, a few tomatoes, lots of ...
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Warming Wednesday
For Christmas my mum gave me this wonderful toadstool house for the garden. Mum works with intellectually disabled children and from what I recall she bought this through her school and ...
Stunning Sunday
I think I need to change the Stunning Sunday title, stunning isn’t a word that comes to mind when looking at todays gardening project! I decided it was time to try raising some seeds. There ...
Glorious Gladioli – part two
A few weeks back I posted about my lovely gladioli. We enjoyed the gladioli for exactly five more days after the post until it broke under it own weight on the the windy rainy Saturday of the ...
Veg About
Well, Veg About isn’t going so well at Rose Cottage. As you will have seen in a previous post, vegetables rebelled and went to seed. We have tomatoes, although something has munched on a ...
Glorious Gladioli
Last year I planted several Gladioli bulbs, then promptly forgot about them. This year they’ve come up. There are four, but as yet only one is in flower – but what beautiful flowers ...
Peas
A few week ago I wrote about being innundated with peas. This has proved to be a good thing given the way our other vegetables are behaving. A few days ago I tasted the first of the peas and was ...
Uh-oh!
There is an uprising occuring in our front yard at present – The Revenge of the Vegetables. After several months of being prodded at, picked at, munched on and exposed to all sorts of ...
An unexpected visit
“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care – in hopes that a possum soon would be there….” This is what the fireplace looked like when I went to bed last night. ...