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• 21 Nov 2009
  Entry No, 1. Saturday 21st November 2009.
  This is my garden. It is situated on a slope and dominated by a beautiful silver-grey Eucalyptus tree, which is home to many birds. The early eastern sunrise picture, is taken from our house upstairs, so you can see we are quite high up. A few weeks ago I purchase a terracotta planter, which I ap...
  13°C / 55°F
• 14 Nov 2009
  Rotavated Neutral
  Well the allotment was looking very sad as both Paul and I have neglected it over the last month or two. I removed all of the old plants and weeded the complete plot. God my back was aching. The olnt plant left in was the Rhubarb. I then removed all of the bed markers and paid a whopping £10 to t...
  Partly Sunny 12°C / 54°F
• 19 Nov 2009
  Meads and pyment racked, and catch cropping wines...? 1 Happy Brewing garden , Sunflower Mead 20091106 Transplanted, Eucalyptus Mead 20091106 Transplanted, Caribbean Mea...
  I noticed this morning that the five demijohns of mead had slowed down to a bubble every couple of minutes, so decided to get on and rack them into clean demijohns and top up ready for secondary fermentation. For the mead, at least, this proceeded without incident and I was pleasantly surprised t...
  Cloudy 14°C / 57°F
• 18 Nov 2009
  Plant happiness 1 Happy House244 Front Garden garden
  All the plants in the front garden seem relatively happy. As far as I can tell, my recent transplants have all taken well. It will be next year before I can really judge through. Meanwhile, I did what I could to contribute to their well being with a little bit of spot weeding.
  Windy 13°C / 55°F
• 14 Nov 2009
  Compost turning House244 Veg Patch garden
  I turned the compost heap and moved the most mature compost to the “dalek”. We need to get a better compost housing as our present one is very awkward to work with – you can’t lift off the front for easy access.
  Cloudy 8°C / 46°F
• 16 Nov 2009
  Ridiculous amounts of brewing equipment 2 1 Happy Brewing garden
  Never one to do anything by halves, the winemaking equipment I got from Freecycle wasn’t enough and I’ve taken to buying demijohns etc. on eBay. This doesn’t save as much as one might think, but it does lead to some nice deals. I’ve now bought 3 batches of demijohns from e...
  Sunny 9°C / 48°F
• 14 Nov 2009
  Phil's new leaf 1 3 'Phill' Showing True Leaves
  ‘Phil’ the Monstera has had his first split leaf! :))
  11°C / 52°F
• 14 Nov 2009
  Rained off; but mighty Ukrainian canes are in! 'The Smallholding' garden
  I started to plant the raspberries on Tuesday in the newly constructed post and wire contraption in the ‘Small holding’ but it is progressing more slowly than I had hoped. Happily, there is definately room for one more raspberry cane, so that gives me an excellent excuse to tour the l...
  13°C / 55°F
• 13 Nov 2009
  Second Avocado Stone 1 Cuttings and seed garden
  I did not think it would take the second avocado stone so long to germinate; it has been four months since I put them both in a bag of damp compost in the airing cupboard. I was able to pot up the first stone about 6 weeks ago. Strangely, the second stone is already showing the start of the stem...
  15°C / 59°F
• 13 Nov 2009
  General brewing garden update 2 Brewing garden
  After ten days, the pyment is still fermenting away slowly, though there is hardly any cap of grapeskins left; I am really unsure how long I want to leave it before racking it into the secondary and topping up. Based on the experiences of other winemakers anywhere up to a month in primary is not ...
  Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
• 11 Nov 2009
  'Rescued' African Violets in full bloom 5 Purple African Violet Flowering, Dark Purple African Violet Flowering, and Windowsill and Conservatory garden
  I took pity on these African Violets, they were in the ’"These- are-really-for-the-compost-heap- but-we-will-see-if-any-one-is-daft-enough-to buy-them-first" section in a local garden centre. And I was daft enough; so I bought two! They had no flowers on and I had no idea what col...
  10°C / 50°F
• 08 Nov 2009
  Day 5: Becoming wine-like 1 Happy Red Grape Pyment 20091103 and Brewing garden
  The fermentation is slowing; there is now a thin cap of grape skins still forming on top of the must, but it is getting thinner by the day. After stirring in the cap, I tasted the residual must on the spoon and was pleasantly surprised; dry and wine-like, albeit with a bit too much tannin for my ...
  Cloudy 7°C / 45°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Day 2: overflowing 1 Happy Red Grape Pyment 20091103 Transplanted and Brewing garden
  The fermentation is going so well that the b——y stuff has overflowed the fermenter, losing probably half a litre of must and grape skins. Fortunately the mess is well contained as the fermenting bin is inside a plastic-lined tray, but it’s still an annoyance. I’ve cleaned ...
  Overcast 12°C / 54°F
• 06 Nov 2009
  chrysanths with pink tinge and banana seed 1 Happy chrysanthemum pink tinge
  I planted out the chrysanth cuttings on the allotment earlier this year and, despite the lack of staking and care, they have flowered. The stems are not straight but have solved the problem with small-necked vases and a bowl of water. The banana seedling is transforming into a leaf, time to pot...
  Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
• 05 Nov 2009
  Should I harvest? 1 Neutral
  Bit confused as the lettuce look like they are ready for harvest and I thought shouldn’t be ready until the spring (overwintering). Might be due to the warm October? Leaves are starting to die off on some plants.
  Rainy 8°C / 46°F