The heatwave of spring has made way for rolling thunder storms. A bright lit early evening was swallowed by a swirling mass of darkening clouds gathered directly above our garden. It was one of those heart racing moments when my count between the lightning and thunder is zero. (The photograph below is not monochrome.) After…
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Potager Garden: May 2020
The first three weeks of May test a gardener’s willpower. It seems so warm and sunny yet you must try and hold your nerve against a surprise last minute frost. I continue the ritual of gathering up my seedling pots and placing them inside the kitchen every night. Just in case. I enjoy the allium…
Potager Garden: February 2020
My little helper, who pulls on her boots the moment she sees me fetch the kitchen door key, joins me in the garden today. I’m so pleased to see tiny crocuses popping up in the old terracotta pots I bought from the library plant sale last year. I like the look of these old frost-hardened…
Potager Garden: January 2020
There was a countrywide storm on its way to us today, with predictions of driving rain and thirty mile an hour winds, so we had to quickly sneak some garden time before the gales blew in. One pastime I love in the winter months, when flowers are in short supply, is to start looking for…
Potager Garden: Rain, hail, snow … sunflowers and our first radish crop
May was a mixed month here in the Midlands of England. We had weeks of torrential rain, and a lot of gazing out of the window, wondering when we would be able to get out in the garden. Then came the snow, and hail. However, the sun was shining for our village plant sale, where…
Potager Garden: Beetroot, chives, carrots, onions and a helpful ladybird
We spent Sunday building our second large raised bed, which involved moving a lot of bedding plants around to create the space, and then we started to transplant the larger of our seedlings into pots and borders. This is when having a big family of enthusiastic children really helps! Just two more raised beds…
Potager Garden: When your kitchen becomes a greenhouse…
We’re currently in that 4-6 week period where all of the indoor-sown seeds have sprouted and are growing really fast … but we’re still waiting on the frost to clear before they can all move outside. So today, the children helped me to carry the camping tables into the kitchen from storage. You can just…
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