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Growing Stuff
Spring 2013
03 months ago
Today Bella and I tidied up the garden after winter, we had a great time and it only really took the afternoon!
The first thing we did was empty our bird feeders. These have mostly been used by the squirrels, and most of the seed has been left untouched, which could be the red kites (which [...]
Pea and Potato Crop 2013
14 months ago
Last year our pea and potato harvest was not the best. Of course you can’t expect to get much out of a small raised planter, during the worst summer on UK record but this year we are going to try to “maximise our return” (grow more stuff) by getting started a bit earlier.
Last year we planted our [...]
Winter is coming
27 months ago
OK, so actually it is pretty much here. I’ve been working on a big project lately which I will write about once it is done, for today here is just a little update.
Today Bella and I visited the Environment Centre in High Wycombe in its new home a short walk from our home. We used to go all the time [...]
Veggies Update
29 months ago
The last post I did about our veggie patch was back in April, since then we have had a full growing season and harvested our magnificent bounty…… well erm you’ll see.
This post will be of no interest to a seasoned gardener I’m afraid, but it shows how well plants have grown on compost from my Green [...]
Strawberries update
09 months ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
5 months ago I did a very short post about some Strawberries we were planning on growing, and here is a short post about where we are with them.
It has been a very poor year for strawberries, with very little sun, plus I now realise that our garden, whilst it is south facing, doesn’t get much sun [...]
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010 months ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
Just a quick post about a new Raspberry plant we have planted. I say new, it has been growing for two years in a little pot on the deck (no idea how it got there), I just decided it was time to see if would grow any bigger, so I have popped it next to the fence in a sunny part of the garden.
I will [...]
Kiwi Issai update
010 months ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
Back in April I did my last post about a Kiwi Issai I am trying to grow in the garden, back then I was worried about the little bit of a drought we were having and hoping it would make it up to the height of the fence so it would get a bit more sun. Since then we have had the wettest summer ever, [...]
Kiwi Issai
21 year ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
Recently I, finally, started to enclose the hot tub (I will write an article on how to rebuild a hot tub from a unit that has been dragged backwards through a hedge and is in pieces as soon as I know how to do it myself) after it has sat in our garden for the last 2 years.
This has had the effect [...]
Strawberries
11 year ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
A little while ago we planted some Strawberry seeds and then later found that some seeds we’d planted last year were growing, so we thought it would be nice to give our two little strawberry plants a home of their own.
OK so we bought a few other plants to go with them (they were on sale, honest), [...]
Veggies
11 year ago
by Ed
in Growing Stuff
Another mini-update; some of the veggies we planted have started to grow (well some of the peas and the garlic). Sadly things seem to be growing better in the end of the compost heap that had the least of my home-made compost. Also something seems to already be eating the plants!
And to cap it all [...]
