Yesterday, we added a six foot ‘Royal Star’ magnolia to our front yard. Magnolias are such fantastic trees for early spring bloom. The ‘Royal Star’ we planted is already in ful… more →
Garden Fairy Farmwrote 1 week ago: This week we’ve taken advantage of it not raining (as forecasts threatened) and started sowing … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve just returned from a session of the ‘Gardening Club’ at my local primary scho … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Before I start today, I thought you may be interested in a website that my good friend ‘Jeff … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: At last, we’ve started sowing our seeds for the kitchen garden. We have a lot of seeds to sow … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Amanda tells me that Georgian gardeners were known to test the soil temperature with their bare bott … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Today I sowed two pages worth of my notebook, or rather two pages of one of my notebooks. I’m … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Last Saturday I gave a public class on Seed Starting at Earth Care community garden. It went well a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I finally got into the garden to do a bit of long awaited weeding and mulching today. I suddenly rem … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As you may have gleaned from my blog, I like to garden. I like it so much that is mostly what I wri … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Outside, that is. Easter weekend finally found me prepping some of my garden beds for planting early … more →
wrote 1 month ago: After a fortnight of negative overnight temperatures the longer daytime sunny spells and gradually i … more →
wrote 1 month ago: After a monster lie-in (1pm!) I joined husband in the garden and ate my breakfast/lunch on the swing … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Beans soon to be removed … What did you do this weekend? Andrew and I hauled out the beans whi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: After all the preparation of the greenhouse, cleaning, sweeping and scrubbing, we are seeing signs o … more →
wrote 1 month ago: It is that time of year where the sun streams in from the East just as we rise, illuminating everyth … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The build up to Easter started bitterly cold, a heavy snow fall followed by bitter winds have kept m … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Having been deprived of car boot sales for a number of months we braved the cold today, not envying … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As you may have noticed, it snowed! We thought we could ignore it but no, it defeated us and in the … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Oh how slack I’ve become. Meh. Also, it seems the boys have been fingering the lense. Oh well, … more →