misskittin
Member since: Jul 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 4 | Organic gardener
I’m slowly turning into my mother!
Seriously, when I was growing up, I thought my mum, her garden, the pickles/jams/preserves were all a bit tragic and hippyish (although they WERE all delicious, the flowers were pretty, runner beans were great, and the lawn was nice to lie on)
As I grow, I see what it was all about, and why she did it. I appreciate her love, attention, diligence and care even more than I ever have done before: And I’d take pride in people calling me a hippy!
I love growing things, now… The fact that everything changes every time you look at it, the smell of the earth, the unfurling of the leaves, When I started, it was herbs, and flowers, because I thought that vegetables would be too much trouble. And, as someone said to me on a gardening forum: "Soon you’ll be onto the “hard stuff”. And so I started growing Veg…
Tentatively/enthusiastically (depending on my mood), often ineptly… But I’m doing it, and I love it, and that’s what it’s all about
Gardens
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Zone 8b Yay! We have the keys to the new place! There are 2 old white stone sinks in the backyard… Originally filled with nettles and weeds, which ha...
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Afternoon Sunshine Planter garden
Zone 8b This is the second of the big Planters that have been inherited with the new house For the last 8 months it has harboured a (dead) Hebe and some ne...
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Zone 8b I am the proud owner of a new cold frame! Hurrah for B+Q. Thanks to hubby for erecting it! Plan is to nurture things through the winter… Sala...
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Container Bulbs for 2013 garden
Zone 8b Come September of 2012 it was “hole in the head time”, and I did what I always do and succumbed to buying far too many bulbs! I started...
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Zone 8b This is my moveable flower garden! From full sun to deep shade, I can cater to all tastes and conditions I use “New Horizon” Organic pe...
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Container Fruit and Veg garden
Zone 8b This is a composite Container garden: Pots/troughs in full sun, partial and full shade, growbags wherever they’ll fit, and a raised bed (8...
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Zone 8b I’m rather addicted to herbs! Not only is it wonderful to whizz up a batch of home-made pesto, or throw a few sprigs of something wonderful s...
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Zone 8b There’s a Pergola on the back of the new house… With an over-grown, light excluding tangle of creepers Or at least it WAS overgown: My ...
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Root Veg Round The Side of the House garden
Zone 8b With the new keys/new place comes new challenges: This is a deep planter, about 100cm x 30cm x 50cm, in partial shade, between our place and next d...
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Zone 8b Back bedroom in the new house… Light, bright and (having central heating) warm! This will be the replacement for “The Conservatory Grow...
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The Bathroom Windowsill garden
Zone 8b Exactly what it says… Diffuse light (slightly frosted glass), but gets it all day! Slightly steamy (which the chillies seem to like).
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The Bit Around The Edges garden
Zone 8b There’s a rim of (sadly neglected) border around my new Courtyard Garden. At the moment it’s full of weeds, and there are Brambles casc...
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The CFL in The Spare Wardrobe garden
Zone 8b My little lighting experiment,,, Picture to follow (when I find the Camera!)
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The Dining Room Windowsill garden
Zone 8b Well… The new house offers new opportunities/lots of new windowsills… I’ve chosen some of the “prettier” Chilies to p...
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The Holding Area That's Hidden Away garden
Zone 8b This is an out of the way spot, where I “file” those containers of bulbs/lilies/other that have finished, are dying down, or generally ...
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Zone 8b The new Kitchen Windowsill garden is much more conducive to keeping plants than the previous version: It’s light, bright and warm! Already t...
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Zone 8b This is the new front garden… The grumpy little fella is the guardian! As well as the various Pelargoniums Lilies, Annuals and Rain Daisies i...
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Zone 8b A new house, and a lounge that’s big enough for a couple of plants as well as people! So far it consists of an Orchid and 1 spider plant̷...
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The New Mini-Greenhouse garden
Zone 8b The original “Mini Greenhouse Garden” did surprisingly well for a “blow-away” and lasted for 3 years. When we moved house, ...
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The Propagators in the Back Bedroom garden
Zone 8b Here… In the darkest days, and the forlorn chill of Winter, are my hopes and dreams for the New Season: Essentially, I use this for chilli...
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The Second Back Bedroom Grow garden
Zone 8b This is an overflow/isolation area that has not been (as yet, and hopefully never will be) infested with Aphids, and is the new home of my “U...
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