Archive for April, 2008

just practising

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I have been trying to upload a picture. WITHOUT MUCH LUCK.
Wordpress has upgraded So things might disappear here for an hour or two - due to my tinkering or my laptop will be flying out the window.
Why didn’t they keep the old uploader, I could upload my picks in seconds - Now, they have put in a [...]

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dees confused.com

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Ok, now im really confused..Have been looking at a few companion planting sites to see what would be good to plant in between my potato  trenches and they contradict.. One says pumpkins are good fellows the other says their baddies. Has anyone tried this before, i have some Jack B Littles and Hooligans  that i [...]

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im not winning the war.. ground ivy

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Name: Ground-ivy
( ale hoof, creeping Charlie )
Latin name: Glechoma hederacea L. (Nepeta glechoma, N. hederacea)
Occurrence: Ground-ivy is a perennial common in hedge banks and found at times as a weed in arable crops Mine has moved in permanently and on the margins of arable fields. Ground-ivy is typically a plant of shaded areas and is [...]

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frozen peas

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Looks like ill have to sow my peas again!
I sowed the peas a heirloom [Telephone] on Friday. Which was a glorious sunny day.Two days later they are covered in snow… Oh how I wish I had covered them with Enviromesh, instead of netting to keep the mice off. All I can do now is keep my fingers crossed and play [...]

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my poor hand !

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Ouch…ouch,ouch,ouch.
I have got to get myself some decent gardening gloves..Ouch
The half a dozen [cheap] pairs i have at the moment are all rubbish, that are either too big for my teeny hands which make me look like coco the clown or are falling apart at the finger tips and rubbing and chafing my poor little digits…

I quite like the [...]

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