It’s been a lovely few days of an early summer heat wave in the west of Scotland. The thermometer in the garden read 28°C on Saturday. Perfect weather for mooching around the garden. The courgettes went in this weekend, and the tomotoes are all staked up in the greenhouse, with lots of flowers.
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Heat wave
June 11, 2006 by John
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My father’s garden
May 26, 2006 by John
My father, John Adams, was a wonderful gardener, but sadly died 9 years ago at the age of 64. On his last day he spent over eight hours in his garden. Not a bad way to go.
The garden has been kept tidy since then but has not had the same effort, love and care lavished on it. Nature is trying to take over again.
For example, this Belfast sink was planted by Dad with a series of perennials and annuals. Now the perennials have taken over and have reverted to type.
His shed is still in the same condition as he left it. My garage (i.e. large garden shed) looks much the same, maybe it’s genetic!
I often wish he was still around to share gardening tips and stories.
More pictures are in my Neglected Garden set on Flickr.
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Cold Frame on a Warm Day
April 29, 2006 by John
The main garden job of the Bank Holiday weekend so far was building a cold frame so that we don’t have to keep running out to the greenhouse in the morning to take all the plants out and the evening to put them back again. It also creates more space in the greenhouse for more plants!
The cold frame sits nicely in front of the greenhouse, and takes seven seed trays. The sides are attached using wing nuts so that we will be able to dismantle and store it in around a month’s time. We built the frame from scratch using wooden planks and battens and painted it a nice chalky green colour.
Unexpectedly for Glasgow at the end of April, we have had two consecutive days with bright blue skies, endless sunshine and 16-18 degrees C. I’m glad I took a flexi day yesterday!
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Christmas Dinner
December 25, 2005 by John
As there were only the two of us for Christmas dinner this year (don’t worry, all the family descend from Boxing Day onwards), we went for food we really like rather than the traditional approach.
Starter:
Goats cheese coated in brioche breadcrumbs, fried and served with Serrano ham and tomatoes in balsamic, honey and white truffle oil dressing.
Main course:
Pan-fried scallops with spicy sausage meat, served with salad leaves picked from the garden earlier.
Pudding:
[comes much later in the evening, after we've relaxed for a while and made some room]
Jacqueline’s Mum’s own-recipe Christmas pudding and creme anglais.Category Food, Garden | Tags: | No Comments
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Last flowers of 2005
November 12, 2005 by John
Jacqueline picked what we expect to be the last flowers of 2005 this afternoon, just as dusk was falling. The flowers include dahlias, cosmos, salvia, cerinthe, calendula and rosemary, and have been flowering since the middle of June.
We expect a frost tonight, so we don’t expect many of these annuals and half-hardy perennials to survive the night. Still, it is remarkable that they have continued so long into the autumn.
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