02 Monday Jul 2018
Posted in Chit Chat, Farm Life, Garden, Shop, Show-and-tell
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blogging, country life, crafts, creativity, exercise, fatigue, garden, gardening, health, intention, life, summer, weather, weight loss
While I’m cooking up that promised weaving post, I’m going to drag you through a bit of a general status update of life at the cottage.
22 Sunday May 2016
Some strawberries moved, some liberated from the worst crud. And a couple of struggling asparagus.
The other day as I began weeding, after running the sprinkler half a day (we hardly got any rain at all), I was attacked by a swarm of tiny flies. It was truly a whole cloud of them and only while I was working the soil, nowhere else in the garden, not from just wandering around for a looksee. I wonder what’s up with that.
14 Saturday May 2016
Normally I don’t get much help gardening apart from lawn mowing, branch removal and that sort of thing. But since absolutely nothing was done last summer due to our bulding project and a miserable spring, I convinced himself to get out the tiller, appointed two beds where nothing had survived and asked to have the roots and crud raked away. And look what an amazing job he did!
17 Monday Aug 2015
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country life, gardening, greenhouse, life, summer, weather, whining
I was optimistic and made new walls. 2 days. Stormy stormy crash. Sigh.
14 Friday Aug 2015
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country life, gardening, greenhouse, life, plants, summer, weather
12 Sunday Jul 2015
With a high probability of tzatziki.
01 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in Chit Chat, Farm Life, Garden, Plant Dyeing
30 Saturday May 2015
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country life, creativity, gardening, greenhouse, plants, seasons, summer, tidbit, weather
It did blow over in the storm. All of it lifted off and landed on my strawberries…
27 Wednesday May 2015
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country life, gardening, greenhouse, omnom, plants, summer, vegetables
I have in fact managed to fill every box this year, which was a bit of a surprise. That is, the homemade tomato green house is still waiting for plants, as the cucumbers need at least 15° C and it’s still about 5 at night here. Last year I built a smaller version from the remains of my windswept greenhouse, so I extended and added plastic. Perhaps it’ll blow off in the first storm, but it was worth a shot.
06 Saturday Dec 2014
Look what I spotted in the garden today…
