Well after that gloriously wonderful weekend of sun and spring weather, we seem to have returned to the depths of winter, plunged back to rain, grey skies and cold temperatures (here in London, at least). I have to say, it’s put me in a rather bad mood to have been given the promise of sunnier … Continue reading Life recently
Author: Wolves in London
Spring’s sprung at Wisley
Oh, but I bloody love Spring. The lighter evenings, the bulbs nosing up through the soil, the constant refrain of birdsong. Above all, the sense of possibility in the air, a renewed energy to get up off my arse and just do stuff. Anything! For everything undertaken in Springtime can’t fail to be fun. On … Continue reading Spring’s sprung at Wisley
The garden of my dreams
The sprogs have both been ill, with various bits and pieces, these past few weeks, which means that my days have disappeared in a blur of antibiotics administering, snotty nose wiping, eyedrop dispensing, multiple night-time wakings soothing and generally feeling pretty knackered myself. There's not been much time for blogging. Or thinking. Or brushing my … Continue reading The garden of my dreams
Gardening jargon buster: calcifuges
All about the acid lovers of the plant world... Hello lovely gardening readers. It’s Wednesday again and here I am cracking on through the alphabet at a rate of knots, now turning my attention to the letter C and with it, the fussy old calcifuges. My aim with my gardening jargon buster series is to … Continue reading Gardening jargon buster: calcifuges
The torture of Sisyphus…
I’ve been in a bit of a blogging slump recently. I won’t bore you with the overall existential ponderings. (Brief summary: but what is my blog for? *Scratches head, spends months trying to come up with the answer*) Coupled with that has just been a basic lack of things to write about. When I started … Continue reading The torture of Sisyphus…
…Postscript
Did you spot the foolish assertions in my last post? Let's revisit for a second. I'd been ill for three days, then working late on my gardening assignment for three days and then, then, I decided it was the perfect time to spend a weekend painting the house. Was that a good idea? No. It … Continue reading …Postscript
On the go…
Hell's bells, what a week it's been. If you follow me on instagram, you will have already seen me moaning on about being ill this time last week. I managed to get mastitis (mastitis! I ask you! With a nine-month-old! That is something to keep you occupied while you have a newborn, isn't it?!) which … Continue reading On the go…
Gardening jargon buster: biological control
“Biological control” is one of those gardening phrases that sounds really off-putting and overly-scientific for something that’s actually nice and cuddly and environmentally friendly and green and, frankly, just the kind of thing I am all about when it comes to gardening. (It's also, quite arguably, a lazy way of gardening, which gets my vote … Continue reading Gardening jargon buster: biological control
Grow, forage, cook: the smallholding dream, in books
The start of a new year never fails to prompt my (already fairly impressive) desire to dream endlessly about new ways to live my life. The current frontrunner in future plans, sitting pretty in pole position for a good few years now, is the dream of having a little smallholding somewhere in the countryside. We’d … Continue reading Grow, forage, cook: the smallholding dream, in books
Alkalinity to acidity and everything in between
…or, why soil pH is so important Before I really started to get into gardening, I have to admit, I thought the whole soil pH thing was a bit of a nonsense. Sure, I was aware that such things as soil tests existed and that every intro to every gardening book I looked at recommended … Continue reading Alkalinity to acidity and everything in between
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