My latest Channel M video on planting up a winter container. I quite like this one – perhaps because I watched it with the sound turned down!
Let me count the ways: 60 plants in flower12 grasses in flower, or seed heads11 plants with colourful berries/hips18 plants with striking autumn colour And that’s not counting the ones with the odd single flower still just about hanging on, like the Lychnis coronaria, or evergreens and conifers, or plants which haven’t started to turn […]
I didn’t want one. I thought it would be too big, too delicate to carry around in the garden, and I was sure email and web on it would be unusable, just like Windows CE. I was wrong and I repent. I love its slidy screen, the pop up touch keyboard, the built in satnav, […]
Our suspicion that four of our six May chicks are cockerels was put beyond doubt this morning. The usual manic pecking around for corn and morning wing stretch was accompanied by a four way show down as the four largest birds squared up against one another in every combination for prime position on the compost […]
Wow. Streuth. Cor. Ooo er missus. (Best stop there, my parents read this blog …) I planted two blocks of sweetcorn (Northern Extra Sweet F1). The badgers got all the ones in the veg plot, but never found the block near the house. We picked the first ones tonight, boiled them for a few minutes […]
Wuthering westerlies have sent us scurrying from shed to shed this week, diving out of the heavy showers and whipping wind. The trees are taking a battering too, perfectly illustrating Emily Bronte’s description as the wind bends them in unison to the east. We’ve let the chickens out into the garden – they’re gorging on […]
My beloved received only a few books and some promises from me for his birthday. But I threw salt over my shoulder, whispered sweet nothings to Gaia, looked out for pairs of Magpies and black cats and twiddled my lucky charms. Maybe something worked, for England won the Ashes on his birthday and made one […]