My inspiration for starting this blog originally came from all the fabulous blogs I'd stumbled onto while looking for information to help me start my gardening journey. It's five years on now, and some of those blogs I've followed almost daily, others I've somehow found just once or twice just by following links that lead me there and then I've never been able to find them again. Just yesterday while following links I found my way to Bloglovin, a one stop shop for all the blog surfing you could want. Already this morning I've had updates sent to my mobile to let me know which blogs I've chosen to follow have updated postings.It makes it so easy to keep all the blogs you'd like to follow in one place.So very easy. So I've decided I'm going to put my blog on there as well, so for anyone out there who wants to follow my very sporadic postings, you too can get a email to say, she's finally put up another post!
Here's the link, Follow my blog with Bloglovin, enjoy the surfing!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Quick daily update
Today was a great day in the garden! Not only did we get the lawns raked, and all the leaves onto the new leaf pile, we also got them mowed, so everything looks really tidy.
The best news of the day was the discovery this morning of not only more tadpoles in the new pond, but also the discovery of new baby frogs. They are little tiny black ones, smaller then the nail on my little finger. I'm imagining they'll grow into the lovely little green frogs we get at the other pond, and this was almost certainly confirmed by the discovery of one of these same green frogs amongst the greenery. Fingers crossed.
We're going on holidays and won't be back for a week so I wanted to ensure the wicking beds are all filled and that most of the plants the need watering every couple of days have been moved to be in a obvious place so that my parents can water them easily while I'm away.
I hand pollinated the first female squash flower today, so with some luck, in a couple of weeks we should be enjoying home grown squash. The large cherry tomato in bed 3 has been cut right back, removing all the dead wood to see if I can get another flush and in doing this I've also been able to get right into the beans and cut off all the old ones to also allow for another good crop to follow.
Last but not least for pumpkin seeds planted into the new seashell wicker bed. Unfortunately no photos today, but after reading another blog recently that didn't have any photos I figured that the occasional post without images will at least keep things moving when I'm too tired to do anything else.
The best news of the day was the discovery this morning of not only more tadpoles in the new pond, but also the discovery of new baby frogs. They are little tiny black ones, smaller then the nail on my little finger. I'm imagining they'll grow into the lovely little green frogs we get at the other pond, and this was almost certainly confirmed by the discovery of one of these same green frogs amongst the greenery. Fingers crossed.
We're going on holidays and won't be back for a week so I wanted to ensure the wicking beds are all filled and that most of the plants the need watering every couple of days have been moved to be in a obvious place so that my parents can water them easily while I'm away.
I hand pollinated the first female squash flower today, so with some luck, in a couple of weeks we should be enjoying home grown squash. The large cherry tomato in bed 3 has been cut right back, removing all the dead wood to see if I can get another flush and in doing this I've also been able to get right into the beans and cut off all the old ones to also allow for another good crop to follow.
Last but not least for pumpkin seeds planted into the new seashell wicker bed. Unfortunately no photos today, but after reading another blog recently that didn't have any photos I figured that the occasional post without images will at least keep things moving when I'm too tired to do anything else.
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