veg garden – The Garden Smallholder

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January is such a bleak and dreary month, it also happens to be the month of our birthdays. Oh I

This year has been a tricky year for me with regards to my health. As some of you are already

The sun was shining today, so we grabbed the opportunity to plant some garlic and carry on with the autumn

Earlier this year we planted our first blueberry bushes in lovely old bath tubs. I wasn’t expecting much from their

Follow my blog with Bloglovin There was a real nip to the air this morning. A light blanket of frost

We did a spot of autumn tidying in the veg garden this afternoon. The weather has been so lovely and

One of my garden jobs this month has been picking beans and bringing them in to shell. We grew 6 different

I’m a bit late with this post but better late than never! What’s growing on in our kitchen garden this month? Timperley

Where did 2016 go? It whizzed by! We had a wonderful Christmas but I find the run up to New

This month has flown by for me and I’m quite late putting this post together. The photos were taken just

Flash flooding struck our region last week causing chaos to rail and roads, farmland, homes and gardens. Thankfully our home and

I thought it would be interesting to share a monthly photo of the new veg garden, to document how it

Images from our garden smallholding.

The year is rolling along so quickly, it’s hard to believe Christmas will be upon us next month. It’s been a strange

The glorious sunny weather over the past few days really helped to warm the soil, I took full advantage by sowing

Its official, Autumn is upon us. I love the feel of autumn, the colours and the freshness of it. Autumn makes