by Jkrisp | Feb 8, 2018 | Gardens, Seasons
After visiting a home garden north of here I have decided to completely change the layout of the vegetable patch. I have dug up the whole area where the polly tunnel and several of the beds were and created deep ditches with mounded soil rows. The plan is to simplify...
by Jkrisp | Jan 29, 2018 | Flowers, Gardens, Keep things running
While the ever-changing wild weather continues outside there is plenty of work to do inside. A newly order flat pack bee-hive has arrived and needed assembling so I go busy with that while the wind rain and sleet whipped around. Unlike Ikea furniture this did...
by Jkrisp | Jan 25, 2018 | Gardens, Keep things running, Seasons, Walks
Storm Georgina hit us last night and we recorder winds up to 88 miles per hour at the house but across the meadow they were probably even stronger. Thankfully the pollytunnel is holding up fine but the wind and deer fences both blew down. The wind fence is...
by Jkrisp | Dec 10, 2017 | Gardens
Woke up this morning to a winter wonderland outside, the snow was fairly thick and went right down to the waterside which is unusual here. So although we managed to get the new lean-to finished the other day we now have the issue of the heavy snow covering the roof...
by Jkrisp | Dec 8, 2017 | Gardens, Greenhouse, Keep things running
Having finished the outer structure of the lean-to I began to build the shelf inside where we will start growing a variety of plants to be planted out along the walk and in the house garden. The initial plan was the there would only be plants on the shelf as...
by Jkrisp | Nov 20, 2017 | Flowers, Gardens, Seasons
We had a recently had a visitor who came to Rudha Mor and gave us some general advise and tips for the maintenance and development of the walk. As we were walking around she spotted a tree in the arboretum which looked a little unhealthy and she suggested that we cut...
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