Entries Tagged as 'The Garden'
Photo Update : In Esthers Garden
September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Photography · The Garden
Spring is Here with a desktop wallpaper download
September 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Its like someone has flicked a switch and all of a sudden warm weather, blossoms daffodils and magnolias bamboozled us with their colour and ability to make us sneeze, uncontrollably for minutes at a time..
I am loving the warmth and being able to wear a tea shirt and skirt and go for bike rides without [...]
Tags: Photography · The Garden
Powdery Mildew and Aphids
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Well I had a few issues awhile back i consulted the www about, and the first solutions I came across “seem” to be working. Yay!
First it was the aphid infestation:
I applied a recipe of:
1/2 litre of water,
tsp of crushed chillie
1/2 tsp of dish detergent
Grapeseed oil
Strained so the crushed chillie bits didn’t clog up sprayer..
And [...]
Tags: Blogroll · The Garden
Using the seeds off your veges
February 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
After reading “You Grow Girl” (more like taking it everywhere and just pulling it out for inspiration every evening for the last month) I have decided to start using the seeds my plants create to be used for next years veges. I wanted to find other reading on this, but decided that I should just [...]
Tags: The Garden
Thrifting at its best and most delightful
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Christchurch has this amazing system to deal with peoples trash. ONE part of it is as you go to “the tip” with your trailer load of “rubbish” you go through/past a recycling area. This recycling area has the usual bottles and paper, they also have a big shed to off load anything that is re-usable; [...]
Tags: Blogroll · Life in general · Shops · The Garden
Communitiy and Book for Gardening!!
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I got this book out from the library in the weekend:
It has some wonderful ideas and funny writing. In it mentioned the online gardening community www.yougrowgirl.com I am just about to start exploring it.
But as some of you know I am addicted to online communites. However I don’t tend to spend lots of time [...]
Tags: Books · Funny · The Garden
Lovely Lovely Artichokes
December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I was introduced to the Artichoke by a past boy friends mother. We sat around a huge wooden table with fresh vege and meat pilled into the middle. One of the white ceramic bowls was filled with some big flower looking things. No-one was surprised by this (it looked a little odd to me) but [...]
Tags: Blogroll · Food · The Garden
