Chilli Crop
We’ve had plenty of chilli’s from the chilli plants this year!
Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We’ve had plenty of chilli’s from the chilli plants this year!
Check out this bright purple pollen being brought back to a hive by one of our bees. Does anyone know what flower it might have come from?
One of our Sweet Potato plants has started flowering… We’re still not sure how, if or when we’ll actually get any sweet potatos though.
I do like eating home grown produce and the garden is doing well at the moment. Last night I managed a meal with loads of fruit and veg that we had grown with our own fair hands. It was a bit of a mix and match meal as I grabbed it after a circuit training...
We haven’t had much of a summer so far and the wet weather has been perfect for slugs and snails. They’ve been having a great time in the garden munching their way through our plants. We don’t normally have an issue with slugs and snails here, but this year they’ve been pretty bad. We’ve still...
The Purple Sprouting Brocoli in the garden provided us with plenty of delicious florets earlier in the year and keep us well fed for a few weeks. We then took our eyes off the ball and it went to flower. But that’s not a problem. The bright yellow flowers actually look OK in the garden...
The garden is going through a pink and purple phase at the moment, with Lupins and Foxgloves stealing the show. Although the little Primula Vialli are sticking up for themselves and matching the pinks and purples of both of the taller spires.
We broke up our drive back from the Big Cow Triathlon with a stop at the Dingle Garden just outside of Welshpool. This is probably my favourite garden and I love everything about it, except the fact that mine will never ever look anywhere near as good as this. It was the perfect little stop...
At last, the weather has changed and the sun has come out. The temperature even got into double figures today, although according to the weather station it did only hit 14.6°C. It’s supposed to be nice all week as well and will make it into the high teens temperature wise. I managed to spend a...