As the garden changes mood with tones of russet, purple and gold, it does mean that leaves will shortly fall and adorn the ground. As much as I love autumn leaves I am not a fan of picking them up. However doing so then means I can make FREE soil conditioner by making leaf mold. […]
Saturday night delight!!!!! Firstly and obviously due to the large image to the left, we have made it as finalists in the SME category of the Blog Awards. Not bad going since there was over 60 blogs nominated in this category and as my previous post stated I did not expect to make the shortlist. […]
September has seen us nominated in the Web Awards 2012 in the Most Beautiful Website in Ireland category. We were also nominated in this category in 2011 but we did not make it as shortlisted finalists, maybe this year. We do have a rather lovely website if I say so myself courtesy of Charlotte of […]
With the harvest of your vegetable crops well under way, there will start to be spaces appearing in the vegetable patch. There are several options to how you manage your beds over the winter, including the covering of them with mulches after digging in organic matter to replenish your soils nutrient. This includes organic mulches […]
Yes water butt or butts was what I was actually referring to, not my derrier of course. Our delayed summer of hot sunny days has meant that the plants are quickly drying out this week and as the butts have constantly been topped up this summer with the record rainfall levels it still shows that […]
