Category Archives: Gardening
Making the Raised Bed
In an attempt to make our garden more productive (and reduce the area of lawn we have to mow) we decided to create a raised bed on one of the sections of lawn. We recently purchased some scaffold planks from Southampton Wood Recycling Project and some 2 by 2’s for the corners. We screwed the planks into the corner posts… Read more »
First Proper Harvest
This week we had our first “proper” harvest from the garden, we have had bits and bobs here and there in the past and quite a lot of certain vegetables but this week was the first one where we had a half decent quantity of a range of veg. This selection contained some carrot thinnings which whilst being very small… Read more »
Garden Improvements
Well I’ve been very busy in the garden the last few weeks trying to tidy it up and clear a few areas, but unfortunately there is still quite a long way to go. But I’ve accomplished quite a lot… Compost Bins: Well the transformation was quite impressive. Originally the area was very overgrown and messy (top left) and although there… Read more »
Recycling in the garden
So along with our recent start on clearing up the garden we have also decided that it is about time that we started making our own compost and recycling the food waste that we produce from the kitchen. Since we only have a small garden we weren’t sure before about getting a compost bin, but our local council doesn’t do food… Read more »
Spring Gardening
Since the fence fell down in the middle of the winter we have not done much to the garden but this week we have started clearing up the garden and sorting it out for spring. Since the weather has started getting better the plants have suddenly started growing again we are hoping to take advantage of this and see if… Read more »
New plants in the garden
Disclaimer, This post is a little late! Currently all of my spare time has been spent sailing which takes me away from the house for long periods of time and when I do get back to the house blogging is unfortunately not at the top of my list. So here is the summer round up of the garden, with the… Read more »
Preparing the vegetable beds!
Preparing the vegetable beds…now this is unfortunately a necessary evil in order to give nice plants, but I’m sure my garden has got it in for me with this particular task. I decided we needed to clear out the back bed to get it ready for planting. It hadn’t really been used at all this year, so it was in… Read more »