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Bring me sunshine to plant garlic and the weekly view
Blogging is remarkable. I recount a tale, ponder over an idea or ask a question and my blogging friends respond; you share ideas, experiences, opinions, ideas often with true candour and often with...
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Jack Frost doesn’t tip toe around
He came tramping through the dark of night and left a white carpet that crunched under foot as I walked. Stomp, stomp, stomp went Jack Frost. Crunch, crunch, crunch went my boots on the ground. Every...
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Stacey’s Munch and Crunch Supertastic all round best Granola ever
We Stacey’s granola. Do you get the message Remember the Promenade Guest Blogs while I took a little country break? I’m finally getting round to making the recipes my friends posted, a) it would...
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Oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree……. TIMBER !!!!
Oh Christmas Tree where did you grow? On the allotment of course…… It brings a new meaning to the expression “locally sourced or grown” doesn’t it ! Growing on the plot, blocking the light, growing...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures
I’ve been wondering how to mark the end of one year and the start of another, my first idea was to do a 12 days of Christmas post, but life intervened and that got shelved for another year, then I...
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Digging in the Mizzle Clouds
You know those fabulous landscape travel shots of the tip of mountain appearing out of the clouds, or of a misty dew laden morning on a valley floor, distant trees emerging from the mist? Totally sexy...
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The Kitchen Cupboard – less is more
. Hands up who has a kitchen with loads of stuff in it? You know the kind of thing I mean – plates and cups galore, several wooden spoons – all slightly different, kitchen gadgets from processors to...
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The weekly view ….. time to get down and dirty!
A deep-deep sleep in my own bed. Waking to the sound of seagulls on the roofs, people on their way to work, of cars passing by all to the backdrop of Radio 4. The sound of home. A bright sunny …...
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Sow with love
British gardener and broadcaster Christine Walkden on BBC Radio 4 the other week spoke passionately about gardening and growing but what really grabbed my attention were her comments about sowing...
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Today I sowed two pages worth
Today I sowed two pages worth of my notebook, or rather two pages of one of my notebooks. I’m a multi-notebook kind of girl – different coloured covers, different sizes, mostly squared, each with an...
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Emergng from hibernation and a haircut
A Big Blue Sky Day – that’s what we have today. A weekend of sun and some warmth, perfect for gardening. Time to blow away the cobwebs, time to feel the sun on your back. Time to garden. I haven’t …...
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Redlove and the flight of the bumble bee
Planting trees is planting something for the future – no quick wins here my friends. It takes time for a tree to mature, whether it’s decorative or functional, fruiting or flowering. Planting a tree is...
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The weekly view – bye bye April and hello climbing peas
Things are growing around here, including the grass, but Celia has given us all permission to let the grass grow under our feet so we can encourage dandelions, they are just what bees need. While I...
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All aboard the walking bus!
Ding Ding! All Aboard !! We’re taking the walking bus today, a pleasure trip. OK you know where we’re heading don’t you? ….. over the last couple of years you’ve seen plenty of photos of the allotment...
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Ding Ding – All aboard!! We’re off to the park and maybe the pub…….
We’ve had a virtual wander around and chatted to my allotment neighbours, oohed and ahhed (hopefully), taken in the views, wondered why the hell we all do it and are secretly thankful you are not as...
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A bagful, a sinkful, a plateful – maybe a bellyful
I’m talking about growing, harvesting and cooking Spinach and Chard. It all starts around this time of year, sowing seeds in teeny pots to be planted out as young seedlings, watered in and forgotten...
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Cheating at Herbs
Are you a cheat? Would you cheat in certain circumstances? What do you think about cheats and cheating? Maybe we need to think about the word cheat before we all get on our collective high judgemental...
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Happy Havana days and a strawberry daiquiri
When I got my allotment 5 years ago I jokingly said I wanted to “pimp my shed” and have a min cocktail bar in it – nothing fancy just a shelf with a shaker and a few glasses. Probably not your …...
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Smile
Smile it’s pumpkin picking time! ________________Filed under: Food, Gardening, Squash
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HELP Apple Art Alert !
Apple picking time – 1 tree and 2 crates of apples, time to: - eat apples make apple sauce, apple pie, apple cake, apple smoothies, apple muffins, apple flapjacks, baked apples, apple rosti, apple...
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