Category Garden

Remember to collect the vegetables. I’d sort of forgotten about our carrots, having picked a few as baby carrots, we had left the rest. Only to find that now they are the size of our cat Babbity! We have also…

is why we initially staked our tomatoes with tiny stakes – this is our previous attempt at tomato growing and they didn’t get much taller than my knees! And why we have had to stake and restake our tomatoes several…

I think we may know this as a bird’s house gourd? But here they are called calabaza peregino which is ‘Pilgrim’s Gourd’ and pilgrims taking the camino Santiago would use them to carry water. I’m not sure what we’ll do…

A funny shaped radish 🙂 When not laughing uproariously at funny shaped vegetables, I’ve been making seaglass buttons. I’m practicing on bits of rough seaglass, which is just as well as it’s surprisingly difficult! I need to get the holes…

Ian has finished the gate, fence and steps and Dimrose and Pirata had their first adventure outside since we moved. Roland and Babbity haven’t been out yet. Roland will need to go out in his own time and Babbity will…

Ian is busy working on the fence and gate. The first gate is ready to hang as you can see in the photo below and then there will be another which will be attached near the wall. and he’s also…

This was our huerta in mid-April And this is it mid-May. We’re really struggling with weeds, but there’s really not a lot we can do about that. I have put some mulch around the tomatoes. What would be great would…

I like nasturtriums and had tried to grow them a few times in Extremadura, but couldn’t keep them alive in the summer. So I thought I’d try here. I’ve been so pleased that the ones I planted from seed have…