Thank you for allowing me my rant. I really, really needed to do that. As Juliet said in the comments, everyone deals with cancer differently, everyone suffers a different kind …

One of the final seed plantings went in today (after this everything is really repeats): the bush beans. I planted out the largest of the vegetable beds with Borlotti, Erimo …

It is supposed to be raining buckets this evening, so have got in early. Truly, we’ve had a magnificent lot of rain this winter – the trees should do so …

Not so much time for the garden this week as I have been busy at other things, but thought I’d update you from the nursery (a.k.a. the greenhouse). I have …

I ran out of plant labels today. How could I have got through 250 so fast? So I went online to Diggers and bought a thousand more, and while I …

It has been such a lovely day today! After all this glum – suddenly bright and sunny and warm. I erected a new set of shelves for the greenhouse. A …

Almost all the way back to the bleak midwinter today. I wasn’t going to write today, but we’ve had the most fabulously scary wind and I had to say somethingabout it. …

Today was spent on the ornamentals. Last night I was contemplating what to do with my spare bit of bog (did that not come out right???) and I decided a …

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 …