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As typical for many gardening and crafting processes, some of my ‘projects’ take place over many days, weeks or months. To keep things simple I will update posts as necessary when there is new information, rather than always creating a new post.
As I think it’s important to acknowledge and value ‘slow-making’ I will include an idea of the timescales involved with my projects.
So, summer has been very busy and seems to have flown by (hence the lack of posting) I’d say overall summer has felt rainy but there have been a few hot and dry weeks, requiring me to water things in the garden. This is the …
May has come and gone in a whirlwind of flowers and shoots. I normally say that April is my favourite time of year, but May would be close in the running. We typically have our last frost date here in early May so I can …
April has now been and gone. It’s my favourite month, with spring really underway and lots of new life and growth. There’s lots of seeds to sow, plants to grow and warm sunny days to enjoy (sometimes). The garden has basically ‘gone to seed’ but …
Anyone growing woad plants probably knows that they are also prolific seeders. The flowers are really lovely and I have no problem with them seeding everywhere but it did seem a waste not to harvest the bountiful dangling seeds. I’d heard that the seeds contained …
March has been wet. Very wet. A couple of light frosts but really it feels as though the winter is done and spring has well and truly arrived. The garden has really kicked off and it’s noticeable how many invertebrates have appeared, and so far …
As you might expect, February 2024 was pretty grey, pretty windy, pretty wet and a little cold. We had a couple of frosts here in Gloucestershire but nothing particularly severe or prolonged. However we have a couple of those spring-like days that make you dash …
After almost a year’s wait, I finally unleashed a solar dye pot that had been brewing in the greenhouse. Using ivy weeded from a friend’s garden, I decided to save the stems for basketry and use the leaves in a dye pot. I’d heard somewhere …
January is usually a variable month in my part of the world. Sometimes it can feel like the true winter it really is, with continuous frosts and snowy spells. Other times it feels more like a dreary November: wet and windy and grey. Well this …