Mr Winter Man Just Won’t Go Away
What a bleak week! For one reason and another (weather being a major factor) I haven’t been able to get out into the garden at all this week and I …
What a bleak week! For one reason and another (weather being a major factor) I haven’t been able to get out into the garden at all this week and I …
Such a cold, cold, bleak snap over the past several days. Snow down into the ‘burbs, biting, vicious winds. Not that I am particularly complaining, of course, because it is …
Although it is still winter, spring is on its way. We’re way past the midwinter solstice, and two nights ago I was struck by a beam of bright light from …
A few days ago I noticed my cc was debited from a bulb supplier. I couldn’t remember ordering anything from them. I could only hope that the parcel arrived on …
Ugh. I decided today to pop down into the front garden – which is mostly a bog garden – and whip out the six-foot-tall dead steams of last year’s Meadowsweet to put …
I bet most people laugh at the thought, safe in the knowledge that they are totally insulated from ever starving to death. In reality, most of us in the western …
Still only July, but I continue to put things in place for my self-sufficiency project for 2010. My major task this winter has been the erecting and filling of seven …
The cats and I have been having fun with my … sorry, their … hay castle. Yesterday I completely dismantled it and spread hay out over orchard beds (having already raked out manure …
My cauliflowers are coming along nicely (unlike my green broccoli, which is growing small heads then bolting into flower), and this morning I thought I’d go out and pick a …
Well, wasn’t that a steep learning curve! Lessons learned: 1) Pork is a total shit to grind. Next time just get the pork mince at a $1 extra a kilo. …