Local butterflies
Aug 06, 2016
Taken with a mobile phone so a bit blurry: it has its own idea about where the focus should be set.
Red Admiral – It’s hard to snap them landed, they dart about so much
Cold wet spring delays planting early potatoes and onions
Apr 18, 2016
Finally got around to planting four rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece. Got two packs of 20 tubers each from Sycamore Trading on Amazon.
Also planted 100 Sturon onion sets in five rows
Cold wet spring delays planting early potatoes and onions
Mar 18, 2016
Finally got around to planting 4 rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece.
Also planted 100 Sturon onion sets in five rows
Planted a couple of Himalayan White Birch trees
Dec 11, 2015
We have extended our little birch copse with two Himalayan White Birch trees Betula utitis var. jacquemontii. They are quite mature standards so it remains to be seen whether they will take an thrive. We have done all the right things: lots of Rootgrow; a big hole, back-filled with compost rich soil mixture, lots of water.
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Wildflower hay meadow project
Aug 11, 2015
Shed garden Our “front” garden is really just a utility space, used for the washing line and occasional overflow parking. It is currently rough weedy grass and the project is to turn it into a wildflower meadow.
A key feature of wildflower meadows is low soil fertility. The soil here didn’t start off too good, so I have cut the grass closely and removed the cuttings a few times, resulting in the brown patches in the picture.
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First early potatoes eaten
May 25, 2015
Our Cornish First Early potatoes, actually Pentland Javelin, are ready. We had a meal of them on Saturday 23rd
Garden update
May 22, 2015
Comparing Oct 2013 to May 2015 Oct 2015 May 2015 Even allowing for differences in photo technique you can see how the hedge has thickened up over 18 months.
Planted Burncoose Cornish Coastal boarder
Apr 07, 2015
Took days clearing the bank then about an hour to plant eight metres of boarder.
Boarder with both collections Coastal Collection 1 Armeria maritima ‘Splendens Perfecta’
2 Santolina chamaecyparissus
3 Kniphofia ‘Little Maid’
4 Anthemis cupaniana
5 Agapanthus ‘Rosewarne’
6 Argyranthemum ‘Cornish Gold’
7 Lavandula intermedia ‘Grosso’
8 Centranthus ruber ‘Albus’
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Magnolia Stellata
Mar 31, 2015
The Magnolia Stellata is out!
March 31. So about 3 weeks late
Fred likes being the highest dog in Penwith
Oct 27, 2014
Fred on Carn Gulva Fred on Carn Gulva Thanks to the work of Gerald Babcock and his grazing cattle we were able to find a way through the bracken and gorse to the rocks at the top.