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Well after some beautiful, sunny days recently, normal service has been resumed and the skies have opened and its now chucking it down. The rain is coming down so hard that it’s bouncing off the patio and going straight back up again. It doesn’t seem to be deterring the garden birds, […]
Buying plants online can be both convenient and cost-effective, especially if you don’t have a greenhouse to grow your own seedlings through spring but there are some things to think about if you take this route. The growing season in Scotland is generally a lot shorter than elsewhere in the […]
Over the last 4 or 5 years, we’ve tried a succession of nets over the raised beds to stop local cats and foxes from digging in them. Our original attempt was using some pipes we bought from a local DIY store and we tied it together with string. To be fair, they pretty […]
Over the past five years or so, bird song and seeing birds in the garden has become part of the joy of having a garden. Although we didn’t realise it at first, it wasn’t until we noticed that we were seeing fewer birds that we acknowledged how much we enjoyed them. We […]
You know I love my gadgets and this year I’ve had some fantastic success with my greenhouse gadgets (namely the quadgrow watering system). Well following on from that I treated myself to another quadgrow product, one which will house salad as well as pots for larger plants like peppers or chillies. Everything has been […]
I have been on the most epic adventure over the last few weeks. Well I say few weeks, in truth this adventure started last year but it didn’t pan out, so I’ve chosen to completely gloss over it and pretend it didn’t happen. So last few weeks it is, and […]
Lots of excitement happening in the greenhouse this year with the arrival of our first peppers, some of which are red already 🙂 We like to try to experiment a little, it doesn’t always work to be fair, but it’s fun to try and this years experiment was sweet / bell […]
If you are a regular follower of my blog, you’ll know that I am a complete muffin fiend. I can’t help it, I love eating fluffy muffins and I love baking them too. One of the things which always surprises me though is the lack of savoury muffins on offer […]
It feels like forever since Kate and I had some garden time. It’s been a mix of my very intense studies, which pretty much take up all of my time and the fact that the weather has been pretty awful, but now that my studies are over for the summer […]
There is one big task I now do every year, it’s not fun and it’s quite time-consuming and that is to make all the little pots I need to plant the greenhouse seeds and flowers for the year. We used to just use standard plastic flower pots for this, but […]
