Category: Garden

  • Ffynnongroyw progress

    Ffynnongroyw progress

    Two days gardening after each other? Is there a better way to spend ones springtime? Today we planted a small willow coppice (about 80 whips went in) the hedge went in last week.  That should give us enough willow for building structures and craft work in years to come, and soak up plenty of the…

  • On being mistaken for the gardener

    I’ve written before about ‘just gardening’ – and I have been at it again, this time clearing a much neglected patch beside the church ready for the children to come and plant an edible hedge and wheat.  Many of the conversations had over the phone, at the church door or whilst wearing ‘clericals’ seem to…

  • Willow

    I know it’s lent, but a whole morning spent on hands and knees in a field near Kinmel bay is a bit much even for Lent. Coppicing willow however is a much better way to spend one’s time. These lovely bundles are destined for the community garden at Ffynnongroyw…

  • First shoots

    First shoots

    A lovely surprise greeted me this morning as I glanced over to the propagator, only two days in and a fresh radish shoot has stretched for the light. I think that must be some sort of record for me. It is reassuring to think that, even though it is only mid-January there is new life…

  • Rammed Earth – first formwork

    Whilst everywhere else seems to be covered in snow… I began the earth foundations for the greenhouse!  There will be a lot of earth ramming to come…

  • Greenhouse

    Greenhouse

    The 80mph winds last night were blowing our bin about, or so I thought…  Found out it wasn’t the bin at all, but the greenhouse panels which were fighting through the trees to get to the ground, they had been stacked against the shed wall – this morning they were quite neatly stacked horizontally!  But…

  • Harvest Festivities

    This was shown at the harvest service, someone commented that it always seemed to be sunny in the vicarage garden.

  • Wheat

    A cool and blustery day finds me in the front garden, harvesting the of this years wheat…

  • Blossom

    And a lot of it!! But not many bees, but I think I have found the answer thanks to Resurgence and a book by Philip Chandler

  • When not to answer the phone!

    When deconstructing a greenhouse of course!! 2nd Tea Break with a slice of Sarah’s ‘wake cake’ mmm At Lunch, it was 9 for no loss, (panels down with no broken glass!!) All down by the close of play, still no broken glass, what is going wrong here??