Summer onions out… Winter onions in. Still they come, young and oh so sweet! Even sweeter, the best I’ve ever tasted. First ever home grown apricots. The parsley has been particularly strong and flavoursome this year… and the Accidental Orchards’ underplanting of wild flowers is beginning to bloom. There have been mallows, cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and …
Well, when I say showers I mean torrential rain! Just look through my kitchen window…..one minute the sun is cracking the flags, the next the rain is hammering down…. Apart from being beaten to within an inch of their lives, the plants seem rather happy with the weather. This peony simply closes in the rain, …
And so it begins. After the tree debacle I put my thinking cap on and began to develop the bones of my new back garden. I was sick of looking at the dust bath so I decided to get stuck in now rather than waiting for spring. I started by putting the stone circle that …
After a week in the Lakes it was lovely to view the garden and greenhouse with a fresh pair of eyes. Things seem to grow so slowly when you see them everyday, so I was pleasantly surprised at how everything had come on in just a week. My veggie patch is thriving…..well except for my …
I like bees, especially bumble bees, which sadly, are now becoming threatened. I heard last night that their numbers are dropping drastically in the North West. But the good thing is that we still have hundreds of bumble bees bumbling around our gardens. This hole in the wall under the kitchen window is always a …
