Category: Orchard
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2021 – January
January had its fair share of cold days this year. Although we escaped the snow this month, there were a lot of frosty days. Down to -5 in the polytunnel, so it must have been much colder outside. So it was a month with a tendency towards hibernation, and catching up on Christmas presents. Towards […]
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2020 – December
Another quiet month here. Not too much happening in the garden, as the weather was quite frosty and there was Christmas to look forward to. I did make a start on pruning the fruit bushes though. And Helen helped me replace the arch which had fallen when the main support tree died and most of […]
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2020 – November
All quiet here this month, with a second lockdown in place we had no visitors again. We did take ourselves out for breezy walks along the seafront. It began to look very autumnal, lots of misty mornings and plenty of fungi appearing Time to start putting the garden in order for Winter. Fuchsias and other […]
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2020 – October
Autumn has arrived, getting cooler and damper, so it’s time for doing some more jobs in the garden. Fortunately the weather wasn’t too extreme this month, with less damage than we had in September and August, although I did wake up one morning to find that the fuchsias had tumbled in the night following a […]
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2020 – August
Hello and welcome to the first post at the new home for the blog. The format hasn’t changed, it’s still a monthly post of general progress, and lots of pictures. One experimental change is how the pictures are shown. The previous method I used is not available with this new host. So for now only […]
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2020 – July
Hurrah! Lockdown has eased a little, and we’ve been making the most of the ‘households allowed to meet’ rule. We’ve also ventured afield a little this month, as well as making the most of the good weather when it was around. Visitors! Including the now traditional ‘Tide Bell Selfies’, and somebody’s birthday! Out and about […]
