Gardening – Page 2 – Julia Chalkley

Plant Nursery Crawl

I spent today doing a plant crawl. SImilar to a pub crawl, it was a tour of plant nurseries in the company of a friend. I say friend, but her plants thrive and grow while mine totter and fail. I’ve had enough success growing plants from seed the last few years, but last year andContinue reading “Plant Nursery Crawl”

Now the year has really started.

Yesterday was another indoors day, and I used it to plant up the first seeds of the year. I’ve had the propogators set up for a week now; seed compost in modules, gently watered and plugged in to heat the soil. Yesterday I spent the whole day deciding which varieties I was going to plant,Continue reading “Now the year has really started.”

Waiting for the snow

We have friends in Scotland and the north of England and the borders of Wales. So I know that many people have had proper snow and are now wishing it would clear up and move on. Apologies for the excitement, but over tonight and early tomorrow we have snow forecast for our area. I hadContinue reading “Waiting for the snow”

Good day’s writing

Made the most of a sunny morning by clearing up in the garden – chucking leaves on the compost heap, tucking the fleece down over tender plants and clipping back some overgrown hedge plants. Then starting on a batch of pickling onions. The kitchen compost bin is now full of onion skins and we bothContinue reading “Good day’s writing”

Wet days

We got some work done in the garden, at the expense of wet feet and damp knees. It’s a sombre time of year. The brilliantly coloured leaves have largely been blown off their trees and into soggy browning piles, everywhere is damp and there are very few vegetables still growing. Whatever prompted me to growContinue reading “Wet days”