The summers been wet and humid.
Potato blight has struck again.
I’ve been laid up with a bad back for over a month.
I’ve lost my mobile phone that has all my pictures on.
They are no excusses for not posting more, but just facts of life.
Dispite the bad news, we have general had a good year growing vegetables in our raised beds.
Having come back to the site after 4 months. I’m surpised at the number of visitors to the site over 2000 every month. That puts even more pressure on me to keep the site upto date.
As autumn starts to kick in and the days get colder and shorter, alot of the plants have started to die off and working so short periods I have been clearing up the raised beds.
Winter/Spring cabbages/ cauliflowers have all been planted. Late potatoes have also been planted.
The kids came back from school with a pack of pumkin seeds. I planted a few in the raised bed on the patio and they took over half of the patio, like triffids. We got two small pumkins.
One of the jobs that I really wanted to do but failed was to put a wooden fence up to stop the chickens getting to the raised beds and digging them up.
Some how we ended up with two ducks to go with the four chickens. They didn’t get on with the chickens so had to get them a separte duck house. However, the chickens seem to like the duck house and when the escape from their area try and take over the duck house.
Whilist beening laid up, I though I would start a garden directory. I will be building a list of useful garden links and possible move over some of the detail of this site to the directoryand just use this as a long for my squarefoot gardening.
The directory will have a garden club which will be a better way of interacting together. It has a basic Instant Message facility and hoefully next month with have a “garden” Twitter facility. So gardeners can communicate better with other gardens .
Gardening club users will be able to sumbit their own gardening links and let other users review and comment on them ask questions and general have fun. I will be adding new sections over the next month or two ready for the next growing season.
I hope you had a good growing season.
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