Month: December 2011

It’s been a long time since I was on the site.  I have enjoyed the garden immensly this year.  Moved plants, planted a whole new fruit section with strawberries, gooseberries, more blackcurrants, blueberry bush.  Lost my Rhubarb plants but just bought some more.

In November 2010 I put down several cabbage plants in the Polytunnel I had grown from seed.  Those plants are still growing.  I have been cutting from them all year putting a X in the stem and they are still producing.  The spinach carried on till August and the strawberries fruited through to October.

Those that remember I fractured the toe, well in November I finally got the same toe straightened and the bunion done.  Off the feet for almost 6 weeks.  Now back walking and surprised that the Polytunnel is still producing without no looking after all this time. 

Just before I went into the hospital I gave the Polytunnel and good clean inside and out. The tomatoes have finished now but everything else looks healthy enough.

The garage has its roof on and is now watertight for the winter.  I cannot wait to get going on the garden again. 

Outside – I had potatoes, carrots, brocolli, fennel, spinach and the Kale – that has gone mad.

yuck what a cold and dreary day, my mood matches the weather at the moment. felt too cold to do anything gardening today plus i need some compost excuses excuses. i am just to cold to bother , need some motivation to get going.

another day of magazine catch up, nice and relaxing and then get dinner. i was very good this morning, cleared out ashes and brought in sticks and coal, fed and let out the hens and took care of the rabbits and cleaned the house  so i wasnt completely lazy and i will now give a drink to my foxgloves in the front hall. 

Hello everyone.  Apologies for not logging on for such a long time.  I have totally emptied glasshouse and washed it down.   Next job is to install heat mats.  I hope they will save me bringing trays indoors at night.  I was really pleased with crops last year.  I hope it was not beginners luck.  I promise  to log on more often from now on.

having fun in my winter garden strawberry,onions,look so great!

A very happy Christmas to everyone on garden.ie

Hey guys and gals – the techies have fixed our photo cropping issue! Hurray for them!!!!

One of my son’s gave me a Christmas present of a subscriptuon to The Irish Garden.

So far a hard copy has not arrived,  so I am trying to access the digital version.

The instructions tell me to open www.garden.ie and then follow the link "The Irish Garden Digital Edition".  However I cannot find this link.  Please help!

The recent change to journal photo sizes is brilliant and will save a lot of time.

But I have a major issue with the fact that the change has affected
past journals.

As a work-around to the garden.ie problem of photo cropping, I used to manually adjusted each and every journal photo before uploading to garden.ie.

I adjusted them to a width that I know would display properly despite the cropping.

As the new change has affected all existing journals, it means that my journal photos for three years are displayed wrong.

Hoping that this can be fixed soon and see you all then.

Very little done recently due to the very cold weather, although nothing like this time last year. Almost all of the pruning is done. The roses will wait until the new year. Prunings have been taken to the side of the house. Some holly was cut to day and although we have been told thatthere are plenty of berries on the holly, mine have none but still it is good to have some greenery in the house. I was pleased to hear that the temperature would be rising soon, as high as 10, 11, 12oC  perhaps like we had in November.
 
A happy Christmas to all in garden.ie. I really learned so much on gardening from you. Isn’t it great to have the mild weather again and that during the coming week at least we can get out and enjoy the goodness of what God has given us.

By next year I want to have recorded all the mushrooms in the garden and divided them into edible/inedible.  I will need some help with this as I don’t want to poison anybody so I’d be very grateful if someone would be able to identify any of the four I photographed today and put  in an album.   

 

Another garden year goes by

The plants now rest and so do I.

A time to muse on this past year

Of new friend made ,yes, right here.

 

I’ve gone to gardens, learned so much

Not to mention cake for lunch

And meeting people seen on line

Such visits really are quite fine

 

Rachels garden full of treasure

Up to which its hard to measure

And Hosta’s where the garden glows

As to the road it overflows.

 

Then to Scrubbers magic dell

Its full of love this you can tell

Brunos garden what a feat

Where plants exult around your feet

 

Of  friends with plants they like to share

Now in my garden, everywhere

Those from Myrtle these from Anne

Bruno, Hosta   all the clan

 

So thanks for friendship and for giving

It sure makes this life worth living

I wish you all great  Christmas cheer

And a happy healthy coming year.

Hi I would just like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a prosperous and healthy new year.

 

Sorry this is not garden related… I put up a journal before about Grahams birthday ….. well we had to have an irish party as well so of course I had to make another cake,  this time it was golf related … I have put some pics in an album if anyone wants to see it 

Oh dear me, over a week since I’ve done a journal! Jacinta will be cross!:):):)!

But it must be over a week since I have done any gardening either!! But today was lovely and mild and calm here and I got out for a couple of hours this morning!

What a joy!! Just great to be out there!! I started by doing some "sweeping up" – plenty of that needed after the storm of last week – and as I swept along by the front border I discovered a verbena bonariensis seedling growing in the gravel. That prompted me to go for the trowel and a pot to lift it. While doing that I noticed some seedlings of a little rockery dianthus also in the gravel!! Now I was into serious potting up!! By the time I was finished I had a whole tray of seedlings potted and sitting in the shed window!! If they survive it will be a bonus, as just the pleasure of planting was a joy!!

Now time has been very limited and I probably wont write another journal until after Christmas so Im going to take this opportunity to

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS and will look forward to sharing with you all in 2012!! Thanks for all the pleasure and info given over 2011!!

I have taken this few minutes to log in to say a few words to one and all. It will be unlikely that I will get to log in again this year, as this is the busiest time of the year for me, (no I am not santa claus or an Elf). These are my few words….

It has being a pleasure all year to read every bodies journals, share in their plans and hopes, their success and sometimes their not too successful endevears.

It has being a pleasure to communicate with the nicest bunch of people you will ever meet, who take the time to comment, advice and encourage.

It has being a pleasure to garden thru out the year, knowing that there is help, support and advice from gardeners from all parts of this land and further afield.

It has being a pleasure to be part of such a wonderful site, created by those wonderful people at mediateam and of course the wonderful Gerry daly.

To all I wish a merry Christmas, a happy New year, and may all your dreams, wishes and hopes come to pass through out the coming year.

May your trouble be little ones, your success many and great, and may your health always be with you.

happy Christmas to all 

wish you all a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2012. I dont know where the time is going – its almost a month since I was here. I haven’t had much of a chance for the past few weeks to log on so alot of catching up to be done over the Christmas break. No gardening done either for weeks. I did get a few bare rooted green privet on Thursday so need to get them planted asap. Have them heeled into a cap for the moment so they will be fine.

Looking forward to meeting everyone at the get together on 8 January. Its hubby’s birthday that day and Sean’s birthday the following day so my plan is that the birthdays will be celebrated on Sat 7, leaving Sunday free to take off up the country!

Happy Holidays!

 

I wish all my friends on Garden.ie a very happy and peaceful Christmas.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL ON GARDEN.IE, TO GERRY AND CRAIG AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THIS SITE THE BEST AND IN MY OPINION 1000 TIMES BETTER THAN FACEBOOK OR ANY OTHER SITE

THANK YOU GERRRY AND CRAIG

THANK YOU ALL MY FRIENDS

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

hope u all have a happy christmas and new year

 

 

Happy Christmas everybody.  

Have a great day.

Looking forward to meeting you all on January 8th.

 

Popped out today and pulled a few weeds out from between the garlic, shallots and cabbages growing in their little beds.

Keep watching my cabbages and expecting the slugs to disappear without any help from me. Alas, new holes and stalks greet me each day.  I think my New Year’s resolution will be to toughen up and declare war…but that won’t happen. I have read about throwing down comfrey leaves so unless I’m completely disheartened with this organic gardening mullarkey I might try that next year. Baby steps…but in the meantime I hope to have something to show for my little plot and little effort. I’m expecting embarrassment. đŸ™‚

Santa collected some great presents for me, one from my niece in Clane, two lovely plants, will show them to morrow. He called to another niece near where I was staying and what he got for me was a David Austin rose, looking forward to planting it this week and to two sources, books on gardening. I will show them to morrow. It is gone 12 o’clock so time to retire.

Santa brought me 50 bare-rooted Hornbeams this year so with the help of some energetic visitors they were planted in just 2 hours! I was so impressed! 

Then, full of enthusiasm, I got back to creating my "this year" video that you might like to see …

 

Its a bit long ….. 

…. so I’m putting up a shorter version shortly :-O 

And here it is!

Belated Best Wishes for Christmas to everyone but the wind seemed to be playing havoc with getting an internet connection. What a difference to last year sun is streaming in through the windows at this moment although it’s very stormy outside and there’s been some very squally showers. It really hasn’t felt like Christmas I don’t know where the years gone and the weather is so mild all the spring bulbs are peeping up out of the ground which is going to make it a bit more difficult to clear up all the dead foilage that still adourns the garden but such is life. It’s been a pleasure to meet so many garden.iers in 2011 and visit beautiful gardens in Waterford and Wexford, hopefully 2012 will be a bit less chaotic and I’ll get back into a routine of gardening and keeping up with Garden.ie as I really have missed it over the last few months.

Wishing Everyone A Very Merry and Properous New Year for 2012.