CategoriesGrowing Herbs Monthly and Seasonal Growing

How to sow seeds

With such an influx of brand-new gardeners, I thought I’d make a few quick how-to tutorials. Starting with sowing seeds.…

CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing

March in the garden

While March can still be hot, weather traditionally becomes a bit more variable as we enter our first month of…

CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing

January in the Garden

The midsummer garden… If all went well with your planning and planting in spring, this is the month in which…

CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing My Garden Diary

BioAssay – midway point

If you've been following my blog posts, Facebook feed and Instagram, you'll know that I had the misfortune of buying…

CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing My Garden Diary

Portraits of plants damaged from herbicides in compost/soil/manure mix

These are actual images of plants I have grown this season (Spring/Summer 2019) in compost and "veggie mix" bought from…

CategoriesMy Garden Diary October 2019

WEEK IN RETROSPECT 2019 – WEEK 7 & 8 (12 OCTOBER – 25 OCTOBER)

Warning – this is in entirety a moan post. But I did promise to share the good and the bad.…

CategoriesOctober 2019 Week in Retrospect

WEEK IN RETROSPECT 2019 – WEEK 6 (5 October – 11 OCTOBER)

October! October! A truly beautiful month. With spring truly sprung, there's birds chirping, bees buzzing, lambs jumping through dandelion fields,…

Pear blossoms CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing September 2019 Week in Retrospect

Week in Retrospect 2019 – Week 4 & 5 (21 September – 4 October)

  Last weekend I was down and out with a head cold, and just did not feel up to doing…

CategoriesSeptember 2019 Week in Retrospect

Week in Retrospect 2019 – Week 3 (14 September – 20 September)

Three weeks into spring, and things are going well. Albeit a bit slower than I’d like – not the plants’…

CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing My Garden Diary September 2019

Week in Retrospect 2019 – Week 2 (7 Sept – 13 Sept)

Full steam ahead with my garden diary / inspiration blog. If you've missed the beginning, feel free to check out…