a weblog with an allotment attached
6 May 2008
This week is going to be pretty stressful because of various work things that are far too dull to go into here. Suffice to say that my tummy is in knots. It’s not pretty.
As the weather is so utterly gorgeous I have been combating that stress by enjoying the sunshine and sticking my hands in […]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 4:50 pm
5 May 2008
If there’s one vegetable plant I can grow it’s climbing french beans. They were the first thing I grew in this garden, in a pot on the patio. When we were struggling with the allotment and overgrown with bindweed we still managed to harvest enormous quantities of french beans. It’s only natural, then, […]
Filed under: Baby plants, Hard labour — Clare @ 3:24 pm
3 May 2008
We forgoed (forwent?) our usual Saturday lie in today and got up early in order to (among other things) take a trip to the garden centre and buy some 8ft bamboo canes. Our car is a Mini, not designed for ridiculously long garden equipment (or, in our experience, anything larger than a tablespoon […]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 6:42 pm
28 April 2008
This weekend saw some gorgeous sunshine with some showers and thunderstorms thrown in for good measure. The sun was plentiful enough to tempt me outside for some pottering around the garden doing a whole host of things that have been scratching at my ankles, begging for attention.
The sun was warm enough to make for […]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 9:23 pm
23 April 2008
I’m not a winter gardener. I’m not even an all-weather gardener, actually. Somehow, over the winter, it’s not just that there’s nothing much going on outdoors, but I retreat from green spaces and forget about nature to some degree. Spring requires me to thaw out and allow my dormant green-ish fingers to wake […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Seasons - spring — Clare @ 5:06 pm
22 April 2008
My recent trips out into the garden have been brief, one-job-per-visit affairs. Sow some seeds. Plant some asparagus. Dig over a bed. Pull up weeds. Pull up weeds again. Notice that weeds are all of the same type as I pull out yet more of the blighters. You […]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 5:39 pm
3 April 2008
Ahem.
Let me preface this post by saying that I have been rather distracted by work over the last couple of months so my potager concentration has not been what it might have been. Honestly.
Plus I feel utterly ashamed and stupid. So be gentle with me, OK?
So, I finally got around to planting out […]
Filed under: Dos & Don'ts, Hard labour — Clare @ 5:13 pm
13 February 2008
Today is another beautiful day. If it weren’t quite so chilly I would almost be tempted to say that Spring had arrived, but the very pink end of my nose is quite certain that we are still in Winter. It wasn’t so cold to drive me indoors though and I spent a little time […]
Filed under: Hard labour — Clare @ 1:17 pm