Stuff we’ve got lately…

A good week for winning things:
My Dear Husband won a satin handbag filled with M&S smelly stuff at the cub scouts family evening raffle – though it was an insult to his masculinity to have to go up and collect it.
I won a hamper filled with M&S food at the school Christmas fair ( I [...]

Garden bloggers bloom day Nov 2008

  Am I a garden blogger?  A lazy blogger certainly. Once again I forgot about the blooms day thing, I’ve only actually remembered once!
Two days late.
 I have a hebe which started flowering just last week. maybe it knows I’m going to give it away and is pleading for mercy! As always, being a bad gardener, I planted [...]

Not quite wordless Wednesday

I  look around other blogs and see what people are doing and I think “me too” ( and maybe it will make my piffle seem better. So I tried this a wee while ago but I’m not really able to do this Wordless Wednesday thing, a lot of the time I forget it’s Wednesday as I stumble [...]

Cats: how much do I love them?

rose winchester cathedral
.. not too much actually. there’s a cat round ‘ere name of Socks who thinks he owns my house. He’s always tring to get inside – presumably to scratch all my furniture (little does he know that all my furniture is complete rubbish so he couldn’ t possibly make it any worse). Once, [...]

the rudest potato ever

the rudest potato ever
Originally uploaded by nodwah
This is a potato otherwise I wouldn’t be holding it in my hand eeugh!
I’m entering in the Emsworth village show over 18s category but I wouldn’t enter it in person to my local show for fear of being sin died.

You wait 5 years for your day lily to flower…

You wait 5 years for your day lily to flower…
At least five years ago I bought this plant as a Hemerocallis. It didn’t flower.
I dug it up and brought it with me when we moved house. For two years it still didn’t flower.
I split it and replanted a bit in a different place.
It’s flowered!
It’s a [...]

Guerilla Gardening

Goodness has it been a week since I blogged? Back to school and work and doesn’t the time fly?
Anyway, this flower is in my garden, not the guerilla one I was involved with last night, my photos didn’t come out at all well.
I got a message from the Guerilla gardening online forum about a big [...]

What are they doing to me??

http://www.gardenersworld.com/toby-buckland/
It has come to my attention that they’ve announced the new presenter for Gardener’s World. Well I’m sure this chappie is a nice bloke but he’s not Chris ‘whoar’ Beardshaw, Sven ‘phwoar’ Wombwell or even Matt ‘just good friends’ James. I guess I’ll grow to like him as he is into recycling and all that [...]

Marmande tomatoes

Quick update on the marmande experience: Deee lishious!
That is easily the best tasting beafsteak tomato I have ever tasted. The flesh is quite solid with not much juice, so quite meaty as it were and with a slight tang like a ‘gardener’s delight’.
I will certainly grow this again. My plants are in the conservatory getting [...]

First harvests of the year

I’m such a lazy blogger, I spend so long browsing around other blogs I never get around to doing my own. I have such a dull life anyway.. this week I’m extra tired as I’ve been at work for an hour and a half longer than usual every day. That’s so hopless, I’ll never be [...]