Beating the Budget
Category: Gardening
Growing stuff – the Horticultural art of gardening or plant growing.
Pete goes Petrolhead Mad!
Sunflower Seeds
Dig for Britain!!!!!
Nearly finished
Extreme Gardening
Turf Lifting + Forgotten Limestone
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The chancellor having increased the cost of everything again, it is time to make some progress with the effort to become more self-sufficient
This week we had the help of Pete and Tish in the garden. They worked like trojans.
Being a bit (okay, a lot) of a grown-up kid, I planted a load of sunflower seeds this summer...
In a throwback to WW2 and following Gordon's plea (and heavy taxes) to be green, we have begun the task of feeding the whole of Cumbria with our own vegetables...
Our new greenhouse...
Our garden is a nightmare and a pleasant place at the same time!
We've tackled everything in two mad days of full-on 'extreme gardening'. That is, getting it all done to minimise the number of climbing days used up.
It was our turn to pay back some of the sweat Dave had suffered digging the ground for our patio a couple of years ago; today we helped lift the turf where the new green house is due to rise from the ground next week. It was hard work...