After too many days being inside over the Christmas holiday period, I was feeling a bit desperate to get outside and do something physical. We’ve had too much rain and wind to be able to do any gardening without making a

Well, today I haven’t been outside once and am now feeling sluggish and tired. Silly really because it was a sunny and not too windy day and I was mildly tempted to go to the nursery but after I’d had

There are/have been lots of berries this year. The cotoneasters have been especially fruitful but now the fieldfares have stripped the branches and there are very few left.

I started off the day having a bonfire, we needed to burn many cardboard boxes which had been stored in our barn for rather a long time and mice had had a happy time nesting in them. The weather was

I may not have written for a couple of weeks but during that time have managed to get quite a lot of planting and transplanting done. The ground is getting stickier though so I may not be able to do

It was almost windless for  couple of hours this morning so I took the opportunity to do some spraying. This involved walking round parts of the site that I don’t often see and as I was looking at the ground

Last week the forecasters went overboard telling us all to ‘prepare’ for damaging gale-force winds. I know some people in the south and south-east had a bad time during Sunday night, trees fell down, tiles came off roves and one

Yesterday I had a successful bonfire even though the heap of hedge trimmings and garden waste was rather wet. In order to keep it going I pruned a couple of plants. The first to get the saw treatment was Salix

At last I planted the garlic yesterday. The soil in the veg bed was beautifully workable, I was able to lightly fork over the ground before planting the cloves. Compared to last year it was such a different story. Then,

So, I was right to do as much in the garden as I could while there was a window of opportunity. It didn’t last long. One minute it was too dry to do any planting and now its too wet,