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A Slow Start
Bulbs on the bench I fear that whatever I write about the garden and the weather I will end up either a Jeremiah, Job’s comforter or even worse a Polly Anna. So we will summarise the current state of...
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Let them eat cake
We are now well into the hungry gap. The last knobbly celeriac helped stretch some frozen cauliflower purée into soup, the final half bucket of potatoes are beginning to sprout and I am left with a...
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Wordless Wednesday – Solanum tuberosum Charlotte
Filed under: Vegetables, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Solanum tuberosum Charlotte
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In the land of plenty
At last salad rationing has come to an end and there are rewards for hard labour. Each spring is different, but by the end of May we have stopped anticipating and started eating! The first new potatoes...
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Garden of Plenty
There are a series of landmarks in my gardening year and, however intemperate the weather, by late July, the croft vegetable garden has been transformed into a garden of abundance. The empty trugs of...
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Wordless Wednesday – Late Harvest
Filed under: Fruit, Vegetables, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: green tomatoes
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Sheltering from the storm
Filed under: Vegetables, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: cauliflower
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From Dawn to Dusk
The rosy glow of a November dawn With less than a month to go to the winter solstice, the days are very short and the list of wintering gardening chores grows ever longer. October and November have...
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Going nuts in May
Apple Blossom May can be a bit of a growler, and this year it has been a perfect storm of grumpiness. So far it has been the coldest, windiest and wettest May for a number of years. The weather is so...
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The North-South Divide
I’ve been passing a wet, windy cold afternoon by wandering around some of the lovely gardens which take part in the End of Month View meme. How verdant and floriferous they appear, I can almost hear...
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Midsummer Harvest
Garlic Red Donetsk Regular visitors to the croft garden know that I go AWOL from time to time. This is usually because I’m busy with other activities, which can range from being chained to the desk as...
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Wordless Wednesday – Turkish Delight?
Turkish Pepper SuhmerFiled under: Vegetables, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Sumher, Turkish pepper
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Wordless Wednesday – Too late for the show!
Butternut SquashFiled under: Fruit, Vegetables, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: butternut squash
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From Autumn to Winter
Sunday: it is quiet today. The wind has abated and the sea settles as the squalls are pulled northwards to chase round the eye of the storm as it heads for Iceland The November sun is too weak to...
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January Miscellany – Gusting Gertie and Hebridean Homilies
As my neighbour Seamus observed, after a long account about a difficult calving and a tirade about the weather, “it’s January, it rains and it’s windy”. A timely reminder that if you choose to live on...
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Promises, Promises
After all the rain we’ve had recently, I took this morning’s rainbow to be a symbol of hope. Perhaps the deluge is coming to an end – or do I have to wait for the dove with the olive branch to appear?...
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Too wet, too wet, too wet….
Luskentyre, Harris By dodging the showers and intense activity when its been too windy we’ve managed to finish the rebuilding of the fruit cage and some of the more pressing maintenance work. The...
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While the gardener’s away….
We departed with snow on the ground and returned to a tropical paradise. Time to hunt for the sun hats, t-shirts and factor 50+. However, the weather was not the only surprise. The rabbits had being...
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Artichokes to Zucchini
Parsnips and carrots before and after the storm. It is interesting that so many of us have rituals which precede the starting of a job and I find it difficult to start a post unless I have a title....
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Scarlet Ladies
Each year I try to grow something different and as I’d been given a packet of runner bean seeds the subject of my experiment was self selected. A few years ago I’d tried growing them in the polytunnel...
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