I’ve had multiple changes in the pets I keep over the past 4 years, mostly on account of declining health. Which of course left even less time and fewer spoons for writing about them. Then in 2018 I moved house, twice. I’ve gone from having a tiny amount of outside space (mostly bins and strawberries […]Read Post ›
I’ve owed a greenhouse for a grand total of 4 days now. I spent several months doing very careful research on the most cost effective way to get a non-pokey amount of greenhouse space that would be suitable for my garden environment. I made a detailed plan. With drawings. Scale drawings. No, the greenhouse I’ve […]Read Post ›
Forage from the wild-but-productive bits of the garden. Bramble, yarrow, broadleaf plantain, ribwort plantain, dandelion, young dock, dead nettle, rose petals. I had plans to do some plain batches of a few last bits after this, but then I had the idea to update this website and so ran out of available time/ energy.
Further to my mixed foraging, today I harvested the young nettle for the same. Nettles take ages to harvest and prep by hand, but they’re very nutritious so it’s usually worth the effort.
Foraging corner and that which has been dried (dehydrated) so far. The aim is that this food will feed my guinea pigs over the winter when their diet is otherwise very monotonous; buying in similar is very expensive. I’m sure my neighbours all think that this is the messiest and worst corner of my […]Read Post ›
Anyone for some giant watercress? It was a super hot day, so I took advantage of this and spent the afternoon barefoot in the beck, clearing it out. Unfortunately I forgot to take a before photo. Well, “forgot”. I had just headed down the garden with the dog to hang out, with no prior plans […]Read Post ›
If your council doesn’t provide an easily accessible public list of Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) does that mean a) your council gives no shits about trees a.i.) will prosecute you after the event as money is worth more to them than trees a.ii.) will not even keep tabs on what is happening because they doubly […]Read Post ›
Planning ponderings, May 2019 Plastic fence went up 19th June 2019
First grass mowing of the year! Keeping the top short, and putting paths in lower down. Plan is to just let the rest of it grow out and see what species are already present if allowed to develop.
Various angles of the beck The beck flows through most of the village before coming to me, then on to my next-door neighbour, and out the far end of the village. Just upstream of my garden is the village green which was created, and the beck partially culverted, in the mid 70s. The culvert […]Read Post ›
I was really taking photos of my neighbour’s escaped chicken that was living in my garden, but shows the middle bit and the weird-bush-by-the-beck area quite well.
Dandelion Soup 