Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Friday, May 31, 2013

Winter gardening

TOMORROW is the first day of winter and I am keeping my fingers crossed for a sunny start to the season.

Here are the Organic Gardening magazine tips for June gardening.

When its cold, digging, weeding, planting and pruning are a great way to keep warm. As this coming week is when we put out the green waste bin full of everything I can't compost - mostly fruit tree pruning - I'll get to sharpening the secateurs too.


And there's always the fun of turning over the compost with the chooks helping out!
 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Bring on Autumn's chill

AUTUMN is so cool.

Summer has been great, but I'm ready for this lovely cooler weather...

After a long, hard, hot few months, these cooler autumn days are a huge relief and joy.

Sultry days and hot, sticky nights have their place, but crisp mornings, sunny afternoons and cool evenings mean goodbye sweltering in T-shirts and hello jumpers, log fires and warming soup.

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