Garden and Growing

A Busy Mum’s Guide to Growing Veggies – In Winter.

April 23, 2012

The zucchinis are done, and the cucumbers long gone. We picked the last of the pumpkins on the weekend, and collected the beans that we left to dry out on the vines. We still have tomatoes hanging on, trying their hardest to ripen in the lovely Autumn sunshine we’ve had lately, but this week’s forecast [...]

Honey! Honey!

March 28, 2012

If you follow my facebook page you will already know that we have collected our first honey from our hive yesterday! At the moment we are squeezing the honey from the combs by hand, and it’s all rather exciting! We are slowly filling a bucket with golden, home grown honey, and another container with the [...]

Five Things to Cook with Zucchini.

February 27, 2012

It’s zucchini season again. The time of the year where we try and find a way to eat a zucchini every day so we can keep up with the plants and not to let any grow to the size of base ball bats! It gets easier to accomplish each year as I find more and [...]

Lovely Links – Garden Pretties…

February 4, 2012

I think I may have an unhealthy obsession with bird houses…. I need a collection of these. I’m pretty sure I could make a tea pot bird house. We’ve grown gourds before but never done anything with them. And I’ve just decided what the kids are getting for Christmas next year! I am trying to [...]

This Year’s Summer Garden

January 18, 2012

Despite planting this year’s veggies way later than we should have, I am really pleased with how the garden is growing at the moment. The only thing we are eating is lettuce, herbs and the ever present rhubarb, but things are budding and beginning to fruit and flower so I am hopeful that there might [...]

In My Garden…

December 7, 2011

A few weeks ago there was nothing but weeds and grass and clover in my veggie garden. Then we mowed, and weed whacked and got the tractor out and then there was dirt…. lots and lots of dirt, and a fair bit of mud. Then the sun came out and I dug in the dirt [...]

Wordless Wednesday – What’s Hiding in Veroncia’s Garden?

November 2, 2011

Today’s guest post is from Veronica from Sleepless Nights. I am so glad to see a little neglect in her garden, because there is an awful lot in mine! Shameful neglect… whoops! A baby apple tree that we grew from seed. Hidden strawberry flowers. Mint hiding in the neglected bits. Someone let the cauliflower go [...]

Lovely Links – Garden Dreams

September 10, 2011

It’s officially spring here, though the cold wet and windy weather today might have you believing otherwise. Despite the lack of sunshine I am embarking on my annual garden dreaming event. It’s where I look at seed catalogues and browse web sites and dream up gardens that I can’t possibly prepare, let alone plant or [...]

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Printable Love or Lunch Box Notes.
February 3, 2012

I am back making school lunches and next week my big boy will need lunch for kinder (preschool) too, thankfully only once a week, but all of them want to know when I will start leaving notes in their lunch boxes! So I think it’s time for some new lunch box notes. I am not [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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