• About,  Allotment,  Flowers,  life,  Planting

    Allotment

    Actually it appears that this is maybe the first post about the allotment… – I think I need to go back over some posts and see if and what I have mentioned about it before. I am back dating this in the timeline of the blog so it fits better (but I am actually writing it end of May! Opps) But to start… It is very slow but I love it and it is shaping up just the way I want it 🙂 x I have had a few wobbles – not all but a vast majority grow veg and I am using it as a flower space. Initially it…

  • About,  life,  Me,  Planting,  Uncategorized

    Feeling Stacked Against

    Sometimes you just feel like the odds are stacked against you – feeling a little like this tonight… Health a little bit wobbly… Weather – bloody dreadful – gales / storms / torrential rain and it just seems to keep going… I am super fortunate – my health issues are being sorted and not that scary… The weather will pass – so many people have lost so much – its difficult to comprehend how it must feel… But it is easy I think to sometimes ‘oh pull it together your life is cushy – you are lucky’ (I am not really a believer in luck like that – I think…

  • Flowers,  Planting,  Seeds

    Sown Seeds Feb ’22

    I have started to sow my Spring-Grow-A-Long inspired and encouraged 100% by Zoe and Neil from Swan Cottage Flowers and friends on Instagram. Today (16/02/22 ) I have sown:- 60 Carnations – Chabaud ‘La France’ I have sown them in Coir pellets and I have a couple of these trays (I originally bought them preloaded with the pellets) the pellets just slot in and then I water them so they swell up. This tray holds 60 pellets total. 40 Statice – Apricot sown in seed trays – I have sown these in 40 cell trays with compost mixed with perlite. 40 Statice – White sown in seed trays – I…

  • Planting,  Seeds

    Cobaea

    Feb 10/02/22 16 seeds planted Cobaea… So here they go, I have soaked my Cobaea seeds for about 2hrs (you don’t have to – you can just sow). I sow my Cobaea seeds side ways up so that the flat parts dont sit in water.