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Froggarts Cottage Garden: June 2015

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Tuesday, 23 June 2015. Broad bean tops and potatoes. Our plot isn't big enough, and we don't have the time, for us to be self-sufficient in fruit and veg. But it's just wonderful to be able to nip up the garden and grab a lettuce, dig a few potatoes or acquire some green veg such as broad bean tops or rainbow chard. New potatoes, scrubbed and in the pan to boil. Get several potato varieties - but they all taste good! Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden. Links to this post. Saturday, 13 June 2015. But the ...

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: January 2015

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Friday, 30 January 2015. Not much to say about the garden this month. The weather has been varied - from heavy rain to frost and now snow - so there hasn't been a lot of opportunities to do much gardening. I stole a few sunny mornings to dig over part of the vegetable plots and add a bit of compost and to cut back quite a lot of ferns (bracken) and dead foliage which with the wet weather has just been lying all soggy over the soil. Snowdrops are coming up. There are just a few hellebores. They run variou...

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: April 2015

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Monday, 27 April 2015. The gorgeous sunny days we've had recently have lulled us into a false security. Over the weekend I was tidying up the greenhouse ready for planting the tomatoes in a couple of weeks. So I dragged the big pots of potatoes outside. They looked pretty sturdy and I thought they might benefit from fresh air and maybe a drop of rain. I put out a fuchsia too. The magnolia, which this year had escaped the usual "toasting" by spring frosts and has been glorious, definitely has a brown tinge.

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: Poppies in the potatoes

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Thursday, 16 July 2015. Poppies in the potatoes. I'm a dreadful gardener - look at the potatoes that I planted back in March! Poppies - lots of them - growing between the potatoes. Beautiful big red poppy. I should have weeded - but they are lovely - and the bees enjoy them. Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). About Froggarts Cottage Garden. My websites and blogs. Realcom web design and marketing. Poppies in the potatoes.

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: Gooseberry Meringue Pie

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Monday, 1 July 2013. So spent nearly all Saturday and Sunday out in the garden. Lots of tidying, weeding and cutting down. But also some harvesting - 4 lbs of lovely spuds from the second pot of Sante potatoes, fresh crispy Tom Thumb lettuce for lunch and gooseberries. For a Gooseberry Meringue. Gooseberry Meringue Pie recipe:. Basically similar to lemon meringue pie but much simpler and arguably even more yummy. Sorry - no photo 'cos it got eaten before I could get out the camera). 3 oz soft margarine.

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: Pruning raspberries in the sun

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Monday, 8 April 2013. Pruning raspberries in the sun. Sunday was a beautiful Spring day. Warm and sunny with a gentle southerly breeze. It was great to get out in the garden and start preparing for the new season. Looking forward to some beauties like these in a few months! More about Raspberries and other soft fruit and berries at Froggarts Cottage. Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). About Froggarts Cottage Garden.

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: July 2015

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Thursday, 16 July 2015. Poppies in the potatoes. I'm a dreadful gardener - look at the potatoes that I planted back in March! Poppies - lots of them - growing between the potatoes. Beautiful big red poppy. I should have weeded - but they are lovely - and the bees enjoy them. Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden. Links to this post. Friday, 10 July 2015. Picked a punnet of raspberries yesterday. Raspberries are just lovely as they are, and I'll make raspberry ice-cream. For a delicious treat. Last week, and...

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: March 2015

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Monday, 23 March 2015. Seen a lot of big bumble bees especially on the hellebores and heathers. We've had a lovely few days with quite a bit of warm sunshine during the day which has brought out the garden flowers nicely - daffodils, hellebores, primroses, little pink starry bulbs.I saw a deep red camellia in full bloom up by a house up on the main road and some ornamental trees looking gorgeous. Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden. Links to this post. Monday, 16 March 2015. Links to this post. I usually ...

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: First Raspberries

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Friday, 10 July 2015. Picked a punnet of raspberries yesterday. There's plenty more ripening and more flowers on this year's shoots. Instead of cutting down the raspberry canes during the winter as I was always told, in the Spring I just cut them to about 2 ft and clear out the dead canes which have fruited for two years. (See Pruning raspberries in the sun. Raspberries are just lovely as they are, and I'll make raspberry ice-cream. For a delicious treat. Posted by Froggarts Cottage Garden.

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Froggarts Cottage Garden: February 2015

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Saturday, 28 February 2015. Planted up 3 big pots of potatoes - Colleen which are first earlies. They will stay in our unheated conservatory until the growth starts to get big and susceptible to aphids. They are horrid to have in the conservatory and then put them outside where maybe the birds will feast on them. However, a couple of years of success the yield has been a bit disappointing. Mind you, the bought ones haven't been brilliant either. ( See "Review of the year". Are just showing very small sho...