Garden Blooms
The garden looks nice at the moment. Here are a couple of photos I took whilst installing the new water feature at the weekend.
Category: Hobbies & Pastimes
Garden Water Feature
As you may remember, on our Anniversary day out in Welshpool, Anna and I spent more money than we had planned and came back with a water feature for the garden. We bought it from Derwen Garden Centre which was where we spent most of our day. They were all very helpful and we’re planning...
Beehive Plans
Our plans for keeping bees are progressing well. Regular readers of this blog will know that we’ve been attending meetings of the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association. Despite our concerns that the windy, slightly barren nature of the local surroundings may not be ideal for bees, we’ve been encouraged by members of the association and are going...
Courgette Cake
Our vegetables have been growing well in the garden. So much so that despite giving as many away as possible we still have a glut of courgettes. There are only so many courgettes a man can eat. That is until Anna turns them into courgette cake of course. From whence there was a healthy, organically...
Bees in the Garden
We may be getting some bees sooner than expected. Our plans were to get all the equipment ready over the winter and start beekeeping in Spring 2011, but I had an e-mail from someone in the Aberystwyth Beekeeping Association the other day saying: “Alan I am interested in taking one hive to the heather to...
A Productive Day
What a productive day we’ve had today. I was up at 4am to investigate the contents of the moth trap. I then did a little bit of work and then after coffee and a quick catch up with Anna and Morgan it was time to start tackling the garden. It wasn’t that bad out there...
Garden Produce
The garden seems to have survived the recent winds. There was a little bit of damage to a few things but now that I’ve tidied them up they look fin. Some of the veggies are a little wind burnt too but some emergency stacking here and there seemed to keep most things looking fine. Morgan...
Windiest Day of the Year.
It was pretty windy last night. We’re used to the wind here and it is quite often windier than you can imagine but it’s been so long since we’ve had any proper wind that it actually kept us a wake last night. According to the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station it hit 46.9 knots which...
The Birds and the Bees – And Moths too
Looks as though we’re going to be having another naturalists weekend this weekend. First there’s a meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group so I have to set my moth trap up on Friday night and then go back to it for an early morning meeting with the other members and go through the contents of...
Another Caterpillar Invasion
The Caterpillars we had earlier in the year must have done Ok as we’ve been getting loads of Lackey Moths in the moth trap lately. 47 of them a couple of weeks ago and quite a few every night we put the trap out. I noticed the beginnings of a new caterpillar invasion yesterday as...
