Like everyone else I'm both incredibly bored as well as fairly busy. I'm bored with not being able to travel to see friends, family or anything else. But I'm kept busy with work and I've also been doing a few things that had been put on the long finger. Sure, I'm not anyway as productive as I could be, but I think that's acceptable. While some people seem to think that we're … [Read more...] about Salad, Flowers, Herbs and LED Lights
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Berries!
A couple of years ago, after moving into my house, I started growing herbs in my garden. They've worked out pretty well, though they didn't really appreciate the hot weather last summer. However the berries that I planted back then weren't exactly a "roaring success". It's taken two years for any of the bushes to bear any fruit and what fruit there has been so far wouldn't … [Read more...] about Berries!
Doubling the Herb Garden
While picking up the odd herb plant in a supermarket can help to add one or two varieties to my herb garden it's not really going to work if I want to really expand the range of herbs I have growing. Supermarkets will generally stock mint, basil and maybe one or two other varieties of herb. They're not going to have a full range of herbs for you to choose from. But a decent … [Read more...] about Doubling the Herb Garden
Improving the Herb Garden
Last year I started planting a small herb garden. I've no plans to have an elaborate herb garden, but as someone who enjoys cooking I want to have a reasonable selection of commonly used herbs that I can pick (or cut) fresh. I started out last year with some of the more commonly used ones, including thyme, bay leaves and mint. Now, around a year later, I'm adding to that with … [Read more...] about Improving the Herb Garden
Attempting to Grow Some Fruit in the Garden
When a good opportunity presents itself you need to take advantage of it. After doing a bit of research I realised two things: Aldi's prices on fruit plants was significantly lower than anywhere else Aldi was only going to offer the fruit plant range for a few weeks So if I wanted to get any fruit plants at the aggressive price point that Aldi was offering I had to … [Read more...] about Attempting to Grow Some Fruit in the Garden