Not much has happened on our walks with Horace over the last few weeks that’s why I haven’t posted anything.

Today we pulled up our potatoes and got 2.5 kilo I’m quite pleased with that for our first crop, For next year we are planning on making some potato boxes to grow them in that we can keep topping up with compost as they grow.

A few weeks ago I planted a pea just to see if it would grow, It did start to grow and is now a small plant, I made a mesh tube out of some screen printing mesh and put that around the pea plant and made a top for it, It’s all very rough as you can see in the picture below left, This has stopped any chance of slugs getting inside and eating the plant, also it lets in air and water.
For next year we plan to make mesh covers for all our vegetables.

Tags: Vegetable

We made another raised bed last week and this week we put in 720ltrs of compost and planted the veg that we where growing in the greenhouses, We have to put mesh round the frames to stop the neighbours cats from using then as luxury litter trays. We have got sweet corn, spinach, letuce, sprouts, tomatoes, beetroot and probably something else. We also got a Bluberry bush too.

Tags: Garden

We got our first crop today,1 Strawberry Looks nice doesn’t it?

The rest of the veg are coming on nicely too.

We got some poppies off my mother too we just need to plant them.

Tags: Vegetable, Strawberries

Our pond Had a vist from another frog today, We did have some small frogpoles in but we think they have left now. I got a photo of the frog today.

Tags: Pond, Frog

I got a bit of video footage of a snail moving under water, Have a look it’s quite interesting to see. Click the image below.

Tags: Garden, Pond, Snail

Got up early today and watered the plants then spent most of the time looking in the pond. Saw a dead frog-pole so I took that out, I got a bit concerned about the rest of them and thinking the water might not be good enough, So I poured 2 watering cans full of fresh water in. I also saw a red worm like thing in the pond too, I couldn’t get a photo of it because of the reflection on the water. I got a photo of the dead frog-pole though.

Tags: Garden, Pond

We have built a flimsy support to fasten the mesh to that will hopefully stop the cats from using the beds as a litter tray. I’m not really happy with them, I want something a bit more stable but we did just use what we had lying around.
We also got more pea gravel and covered the rest of the garden with that. I think we need a few more bags just to finish off.

Tags: Garden

We have started to put down some pea shingle in our garden, We also have made our rectangular plant bed into two triangular plant beds, This has made it look more interesting and our neighbours like it too.

Tags: Garden

Yesterday we where given a huge plant for our tiny pond, So today I decided to split it up into smaller plants suitable for our pond, I then felt a strange tingling feeling on one of my fingers, I looked at where it was tingling and saw a leech stuck to my finger. ARRRRH. I had to get a photo of it before it sucked me dry of my bodily fluids.

Tags: Garden

We've had a black plastic compost bin for about 10 months now and we checked it the other day to find the compost was slimy, I did a search on Google about what could be done, Some one said that if we put wood chippings into it it would help, So with us doing some woodturning we had a good pile of sawdust and we decided to make another compost bin, So we built a wooden frame around the black bin and nailed some wicker panels to it, Then Louise took the black bin out (I was at work at the time) she said it absolutely stunk, Anyway she added the sawdust and mixed it in now a week later it is looking a lot better and not as slimy as it was, we will keep adding sawdust to it and turning it over regularly.

Tags: Compost

We have made a plot to plant our vegetables, We planted our first ones today they are rocket, onion, cabbage, leek and purple broccoli.
Nothing has grown yet and it's been ages since we planted them, must be about half an hour ago.
Anyway I am looking forward to seeing them grow, Any plant I've ever had has always died but Louise has had more luck than me.

Tags: Vegetable

Had a day off work today because my car had broken down and was in the garage. So me and Louise decided to do something in the garden. We had this tree given to us and we decided to plant it today.
First Louise built a small stone wall to hold the banking up then we planted the tree in front of that. We also thought we should change the pond water, because a few weeks ago we got hold of some frog spawn and put that in the pond, After a couple of weeks we couldn't see anything living in the pond and today decided to drain it, When we got to the bottom of the pond we saw something move and it was the tadpoles then we saw a couple of newts, so we thought we would leave what was in the bottom of the pond and just fill it back up with water. I got some photos of the newt.
Larger photos of the newt are in the photo section.

Tags: Garden

We are doing something with the garden, Our aim to make it look nice by using as much as we can from reclaimed items. We have used pallets to make a fence, I got hold of some wicker panels from the skip at work.
Someone down the street had chopped a couple of trees down and Louise dragged them home and has cut them up to use them as borders for her plant bed, All the stone came out of the garden. So weather permitting we will gradually do bits here and there and I will post then here.

Tags: Garden