The Nook - A Garden Blog

This is the garden a week ago before the ash trees started snowing pale yellow leaves. It looks like high summer but you can see the fi...

In fact today is mainly Marrow and Ginger jam (preserve really as it does not set). Recipe later. There are still flowers in the ga...

Today we have going to the gym - we have had going to the gym - we are glad it is over. Today I - well in a minute. Today R went into th...

Before I get onto Ratty and related difficulties, I am sure you can stand the suspense, here is a photo taken from the kitchen doors...

So, you are all an tenterhooks (or asleep) for news of the hunt for Ratty. The trap was set - a giant mouse(rat)trap called Big Cheese. It...

And there it was on the peanut feeder, a beautiful brown rat - cue wobbly from R and off to the WC Farmer's shop for a trap - now bai...

Nothing to do with Spirituals - (that was Sinner Man) - but P came today and I have help with the manky jobs.  (Actually in the murky past...

Sunday - Time passes so fast now I am getting more decrepit. Soon it will be time to organise the garden for next year. I went out this...

I have just finished making our first batch of damson jam. I have picked our first fruit but did not realise how tall the trees we put in w...

Off we nip for a few days to the delights of Orcop Hill and the garden sneaks up on us with its carrots, damsons and so on. I picked the...

Fancy having wire cutters in your mouth! Well, that is what our squirrels have.  I have just thrown away a bird feeder for the wee...