Coping with production from the potager

I’m starting to realise the amount of attention that goes into growing vegetables.  My greatest worry now is not whether things will grow but when it’s the right time to harvest. How big should we let things grow?  When’s the tipping point from...

A place to make my black gold – at last!

Remember this pile of wood?  Of course you do.  If you don’t read to the end of this previous post and you’ll be up to date. Let’s just skip over why it’s taken me so long but I couldn’t put it off any longer today was the day to dust...

It’s red week in the potager

Flush from the success of the broccoli and carrot harvests our mini potager has come up trumps again.  This time it’s red week with red cabbages and beetroot riping to perfection.  I’ve been looking forward to this harvest as this will be the first time...

Being close up is a wondrous thing – mostly!

UPDATE: 4 February 2009: I’m entering this picture into the contest with the lovely people at I heart Faces. This week they’ve opened up a pet’s category.  Although I was tempted to enter one of the zillion of pictures I have of the bassets I think...

Bugging the bugs: a photostudy

I couldn’t have set this photoshoot up even if I tried.  This stick insect had the audacity to land on my glasses one night last week.  It was gross, I was wearing the glasses at the time. Given the amount of strimming I’d been doing I thought it must...