Sheffield Park Gardens
I€™m having a little play with WordPress 2.7€™s image handling. Here are some pictures I took today at Sheffield Park Gardens.
Garden & Pond
News of plants, toads, fish, trains and anything else growing on my patch of land.
Spawn ’09
They get later every year. Last Saturday (21st March) frog spawn in the pond. For one day the frogs went absolutely mad. Burping and croaking and motoring around, showing off […]
Frogs and Ice
It’s cold. There’s about 2″ of ice on the pond. It’s barely even frozen before. The level’s dropped so I switch on the hose from the water butt. Not much […]
Diary of a Wormer: Day 37
Bit of a break out bid today, on the minus side. Three casualties. Inside, the worms are abandoning the compost and climbing up the lid. I think they’re finding it […]
Diary of a Wormer: Day 14
Something of a triumph: two weeks in and they’re not dead. There are some flies in there though; apparently that’s avoidable by putting a layer of paper or soil over […]
Diary of a Wormer: Day 1
Sealed inside their little bin, there’s no way of knowing whether the worms are thriving or shriveling without popping it open and having a look. To alleviate the anxiety I […]
Frogs In Spawn
Looking after the young…
Last of the Pears
Hugh FW provide pear recipes almost too late. I’ve had a plentiful crop this year, but they’ve almost all been eaten/frozen/given away/blown away. Which is a pity, because Hugh’s recipes […]
September In The Rain
I stepped out to pick a pear to eat with the stilton and port (that‘s what autumn is all about) and this chap was sitting on the step. I almost […]