Tag: Vegetables
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Autumn is here but I am preparing for Spring 😊
Monday 18th September 2023: This month seems to be rattling past 🙄 the weather is up and down but there is definitely an autumnal nip in the air in the mornings and evenings. Last night there was a big storm, I have to say apparently because I didn’t hear it 😂 John said it lit…
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Clear outs, dried flowers and a walk in the country.
Monday 11th September 2023: A bit cooler today and def not as muggy thank goodness because I have spent 7 hours (yes you read that correctly) cleaning the kitchen 🙄 From top to bottom, every cupboard, every drawer pulled out cleaned, stuff I didn’t need thrown out and everything put back. I don’t know about…
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Hot & muggy, flower fun & everything else 😜
Monday 4th September 2023: Blooming hot today and set to be like that all week 😂 I got started early with watering, weeding, feeding, cutting etc, I haven’t had much time to do any of it and now the sun has made an appearance and is fierce so early mornings it is for the time…
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An abundance of produce, grandchildren & flowers.
Monday 28th August 2023: Bank Holiday Monday, we spent the morning working, John was cutting down stingers and mowing, always plenty of mowing to do. I did plenty of propagating either diving up plants or digging up plants that have got too big for where they are and dividing and potting them up. If done…
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Flowers, birthdays & eye clinic again 🙄
Monday 21st August 2023: Up early to get flowers fixed onto hats and get them delivered and then the rest of the day is my own. It looks like the weather will be quite nice today. For the next rainy day or when I am feeling a bit tired I have signed up for another…
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Plums, apples and sunflowers 🌻
Monday 14th August 2023: Another not so great summers day, I know it’s late summer but seriously it was more like autumn today. I am not sure we are going to get much of summer now, it would matter so much but Winter is loooooong and depressing enough on it’s own 😜 I decided to…
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Gathering the (tiny) harvest in, botanical dyeing & still plenty of rain.
Monday 31st July 2023: The whole of July we have had rain every day, sometimes heavy, we have had hardly any sun but at least the temperature has been ok on the whole. It is topsy turvy at the moment, I am not complaining too much though as I have not had to water the…
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It is still raining 😂 a trip to Diddly Squat & my birthday 🥳
Monday 24th July 2023: A rainy start to the day and week, I am a little annoyed with myself because yesterday was dry and I could have got a fair bit done outside and now it’s soggy. Goodness knows what has happened to our weather lol we are stuck in a cycle of rain but…
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A lot more flowers again this week 💐 a small harvest & what lies ahead 🌍
Monday 17th July 2023: Monday again already 🙄 I have been out already this morning and cut flowers for tomorrows orders, hoovered the house and now having tea and toast before I go out and check on my seeds and do any other jobs I spot that need doing, it won’t be hard to spot…
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Hospital, rain, rain and more rain 🌧️
Monday 10th July 2023: What a way to start the week 🙄 We we’re up early to get sorted before setting off for the hospital for my eye appointment. The traffic can be horrendous going to Oxford so we set off at 7 for an 8.30 arrival, we made it in good time and had…
