TARRAGON & THYME

Peas Cherry Tomatoes Pumpkins X 2 Cucumber and Sunflowers Red Scarlet Runner Bean Nasturtiums Courgettes Purple Podded Beans Melon Despite sorting my seeds out I did not manage to set any.  Maybe that will happen tomorrow.  However I have done loads more cutting down brambles and sorting rubbish found underneath the vegetation.  Had OH outside looking over stuff to see if he wanted to keep anything, but he says not.  Bagged no end of other rubbish which will need putting out tomorrow.  Still no end more to deal with.  Back to the grindstone tomorrow. It is going to be another long day tomorrow.  Hopefully will be able to get more cleared and more brambles etc. cut down and hopefully once that is tidied I can get the growing houses in situ.  Also in the garden I have a Fuschia that belonged to my mum.  It has a fantastic display of flowers on at the moment.  I am going to try and t...

It is a bit grey and overcast here this morning  I said it would be an early start as I have a lot to do in the garden.  However it is chillier this morning than it has been.  I am going to make myself a pancake shortly for breakfast but in the interim before I go down I am sorting out some more seeds to sow.  I am all out of sync on the growing front and am just really pushing my luck and trying things.  However we shall see how things go.  Next year is going to be different as I hope to have recovered the greenhouse by then and be able to get an earlier start on things.  This garden overhaul is causing a lot of work but it will be worth it in the longer term. As part of sorting out the garden I have some planters which are ideal for sowing a few crops into them direct.  I am specifically at this moment talking about spinach, mixed salad leaves, wild rocket, some lambs lettuce, carrots just to get me started off before I can get the garden c...

Has been hectic to say the least.   My Sunday started rather un-glamourously dressed in old clothes.  We had a trip to the Recycling Centre lined up and so the first part of the day was engaged in packing all the rubbish that was ready into OHs Citroen van.  It was packed from top to bottom.  We duly went off, arrived and then had to repeat the performance in reverse - but at least that load of rubbish has been removed. Since then I have been armed with a pair of secateurs doing battle royal with brambles, holly, honeysuckle and buddleia plants which had been self set. I am nearly down to the part of the garden that I have allocated for my growing houses but not quite there yet. It has been peaceful and I have been able to be mindful and just be in the moment most of the afternoon as well as methodically working my way through the jungle.  I have been in the fresh air, been doing a useful job although I have felt a tad guilty from removing wild territor...

for my seeds to come through and today I have gone to water them with a water spray and most of the seeds are up.  I think I am a little late with sowing seeds but I wanted something in the garden to grow especially as I want a potager style garden. I have sown cucumbers, melon, nasturtiums, courgettes, pumpkin (2 different varieties) sunflowers, pattypan squash, purple long beans, Scarlet Emperor, marrows.  This is just the first batch of seeds to be sown.  I think I sowed them four days ago so a very quick return.   The little seedlings and the bigger monsters have come through very well and appear to be hungry.  Nature is a wonderful thing.  A wonderful return for a few minutes time and nurturing. The purple podded long beans. Melons.  I have never done these before so this really is an experiment. Courgettes and cucumber s.   Nasturtium s. Tomatoes Scarlet Emperor Will see how things go with ...

I have had a lovely day today.  I started off this  morning by not getting up very early - my body hugged my bed.  When I did get up however I managed to haul about 20 bags of rubbish (garden rubbish) into the front garden. It as a bit of a hefty job but managed to get it all there.  Also managed to get a load of brambles that I had cut down into the gardening bin.  There should be a load more to do. I am hopeful to cut back a lot more tomorrow depending on the weather. Hopefully that will be going to the tip tomorrow.  There will be more after that but that can go on Sunday. Then I met up with one of my old work colleagues for a quick cuppa over lunch.  It was lovely to meet up with her. I then met up with another friend and we had a late lunch scampi and chips and it went down very nicely.  We then shared a rhubarb sundae which was delicious.  I had been with her from 2:30pm until 9:00pm. We have put the world to rights and I reall...

Well I got stuck in, in the back garden and sorted out a load more pots that need to be washed; found a load of plastic red hanging baskets they will come in useful also need to be washed.  Loads of trays ditto, and I have started tackling the brambles.  They tried to bite back.  Have sorted out loads more bags of rubbish and mentioned to OH that we need a trip to the tip over the weekend; maybe two trips will be required.  Being out in the sun all day has done me good in myself I feel calmer.  I always do after some form of gardening and reconnecting with the earth.  Has done my vitamin D levels a lot of good. Need to take some cuttings of the brambles as I need brambles for my fruit patch in the garden (just not where they are at the moment).  Also have a lilac and a dark purple buddleia that have set themselves just not in the right place.  Need to do the same with those as well. It is slow work but it will be  job well done by th...

I have been out in the sunshine cutting down brambles and have been in a quiet pensive mood.  I have come over all philosophical in the process but I have enjoyed being as one with nature.  I have not laid down on mother earth and stared up into the sky but have been working methodically that is until I came in for a cup of coffee. Whilst out in the back garden, I have been appreciating my surroundings even though it is a mess at the moment and the wildlife around me and the peace the stillness of an English Summer day.  There is something very peaceful and calming about such days even though I have been tackling the brambles.  The insects and birds, have been going about their business feeding themselves enjoying the relative safety of the garden making me feel quite guilty for cutting down this natural vegetation in order to eventually put down a potager garden for myself.   I am a country girl and one of my dreams is to live back in the countryside a...