GILLYBEAN

Someone has recently hit me over the head with the "happy homemaker stick". This is quite possibly the culprit: Doesn't eat h...

Late Dec saw the majority of my chooks sitting on eggs or clucky. The three old ladies shared two eggs between them and by chance I notice...

Spotted in the garden this morning, oodles of honey bees, several types of hover fly, ladybirds and tiny wee praying mantis. On the baddies ...

Here goes, .............. a long deep breath before summer. Pj needs new tap shoes and her term fees paid. Practice, practice, practice befo...

It's interesting to note how my own saved strain of sunflower seeds compared to a packet of bought seed of the same variety. I've be...

C'mon let's go have a walk round the garden. It rained yesterday. Heaps of buds getting ready to burst on the Nashi, one of my best...

July in our cold, wet, frosty garden is not yielding much to eat. A lot of the brassicas I planted are getting frosted, which means I shoul...

The sound of winter coughs has been echoing around and around our house all week. The teen, who loves school has had to take a week off and...

We got the frost to end the growing season last night. It's good to remember to protect plants around full moon as it often frosts harde...

The Autumn colours in the vege garden are beautiful. My warm evening weeding inspired me to get the camera out, though my hand wasn't q...

I wish I could say I feel 100% better, what I can say is I think I'm getting there slowly. I have no faith in conventional Dr's who ...

A beautiful Autumn weekend here, good for getting lots of washing dry, eating fresh peaches straight from the tree and doing a little seed s...

The last week of our kids summer holidays has flown by, we all slept in till around 9am this morning so I'm totally dreading getting up ...

In reply to Bonnie. I find aphids often attack young or stressed plants. My tomatoes were a bit stressed for water in my glasshouse recently...

My partner L made my wee stall. Comes in very handy for selling or giving away the few extras. It use to have a lovely money box too but t...

The market on the weekend involved quite a bit of thumb twiddling. I noticed people were buying mainly fruit and veges. My stall was pretty ...

In response to spinningayarn. I have a fairly functional worm farm but am still learning too. I'd leave it till they come to the food be...