Homemaking and Gardening blog by Linda Penney
This is about my journey of home baking and preserving and Gardening
Saturday 23 March 2024
Tuesday 19 March 2024
We started making changes to the top part of the garden
New hosepipe new
Pleased
Please how the work is going so far with the top half of the garden we add 5 pallet collards to the garden need to add some black plastic or cardboard to them .
I got 3 and 2 on them at present
We have a bug hotel in this part of the garden photo coming soon
This used to be wild flowers some will come up this year hopefully.
Thursday 6 May 2021
Sunday 11 April 2021
Tuesday 12 January 2021
GETTING READY FOR THE NEW GREENHOUSE
Tuesday 17 November 2020
Monday 16 November 2020
Wednesday 11 November 2020
Saturday 12 September 2020
After emptying it the other day and washing out and placing it in the shed.
I placed some
straw inside and then added some green stuff with the worms in, so going to add
a bit more and cardboard on top and give it a drink just to damp it down a bit.
We had some rain
lately so have not been outside to do any gardening or picking of Rhubarb which
will be the last I think might get one more out of it.
Going to make
some more comfrey tea later this week have some in the shed already, particularly
good for all plants in your garden.
Rhubarb last of
the pickings for this year I think
I am freezing it
at present have not made any jam this year.
Well I with David’s
help have pulled some Golden Raspberries so we can put them in our garden and
not still in our neighbour’s garden will take photos later
I did take some
cuttings as well but on other camera so will upload later and did some root
cuttings as well
I brought some
tomato plants into the dog room yesterday hoping they will do better in there.
I am about to try
and make a mint extract all you need is dried mint leaves and some vodka and
you leave it to steep for 12 weeks then place into small bottles and ideal Christmas gifts and you can use in
cooking
Just placed an
order with a lovely couple @www.backyardlarder.co.uk
Welsh Onions and
a mystery plant
Just placed an
order with Thomson and Morgan
Blackberry Lock Ness
Some daffodils and
a butterfly bush and some
Seeds of
Artichoke
Should be here in
September
We managed to get
some pallets for my compost bin I potted on 5 strawberry plants this morning
and later some star bust plants
We went to the local
garden centra yesterday
New plants
Gooseberry (Invicta)
Blackberry (
Fruiticosus Chester T hornless )
Golden Raspberry (Idaeus
Golden Everest)
Agastache (Giant Hyssop)
x2
Herbs
Lemon Balm
Marjoram (golden)
Lemon Grass
Thyme
Lemon Verbena
I will be
planting the herbs shortly
Into a small box
once I put plastic in it
Well the weather
has been nice for a change
And I wanted some
things for a long time and the postman turn up with them the other day
So next season I be
able to start on time to grow things
Been lovely
weather we got a new cherry tree and an apple and some lavender for the garden
might get a pear and a damson then that should be all that we need for the
garden hopefully.
We had another
couple of nice days so we planted an apple tree and a cheery tree and the kind
digger man also dug out our fish pond and the soil went into my long planter so
I can start sowing in it now
Already for me to
plant into now looking forward to planning what to plant into now
Pond in the
making
My daffodils have
arrived 60 in all lovely mixture will look lovely in spring not sure were to
plant in pots or the ground as my ground is very hard to plant in
It’s been raining
a lot here so not much gardening has been done lately still no sign of my
rosemary seedling s have come up so might have to buy some young plugs maybe?
The other day my
butterfly bush came up though the ground
which I planted last year thinking it would not came through as it was so small
so this year got another one and remembered to potted this one on so will
planting it out soon
ready for next spring got rosemary in there but no sign of germination