The weather has been up and down these last few weeks. We had hot days and hot nights towards the end of November but the start of December has been quite cool. We have had plenty of rain over the last few weeks too. That has been good for the garden but unfortunately the weeds have enjoyed the rain as well. So we have still been weeding when we have normally finished our springtime weeding by now! We’ve got some tromboncino plants growing in the veggie garden this year. We decided to grow … [Read more...]
Links I Love from November
Welcome back to my regular monthly Links I Love post. Today I will be sharing some of the great links that I saw during November. A few days ago I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to do this month’s link I love post. I didn’t think that I would be able to include the Pinterest pins because Pinterest wasn’t working for me. Actually for much of the last week of November I could only see coloured squares in Pinterest. It was very frustrating! I checked out some forums and was relieved to see … [Read more...]
Links I Love from November
Welcome back to another Links I Love post where I share some of my favourite links from the previous month. Today I am looking back at some of the great posts that I saw during November. My featured photo this month is paying tribute to our vegetable garden which is roaring back to life now that we are officially into summer! The tomatoes that are pictured were from a volunteer tomato bush that popped up at the end of last summer. I managed to keep the plant alive over winter inside a cold … [Read more...]
November Gardening Plus What’s Going on in My Garden
Wow where has the year gone? Now that the days are getting longer and the weather is warming up it feels like Christmas and the end of the year are approaching fast! I can’t believe that October is behind us and it’s already time to get stuck into the November gardening jobs! While the daytime temperature here these last few weeks has definitely increased we have still had a few really cold nights. Just when we think that we have used our wood heater for the last time the overnight … [Read more...]