Category: garden stuff

garden stuff

snappy happy

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)28 Comments

 

Our new camera has made me very happy today. I’ve never had one with a proper zoom lens before and I’ve had lots of fun snapping away at things in the garden and learning how to use it while the children play.

I’m also very happy that I let this one onion plant flower instead of chopping off the stem in order to grow a fat onion – the flower is rather beautiful and is getting lots of attention from the hoverflies.

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Thanks for the kind comments. The new camera is a Panasonic lumix DMC FZ38.

food and Drink · garden stuff · summer

in the garden again

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)23 Comments

Forgive me for banging on about my veg patch again but it really amazes me how quickly things grow at this time of year. I took these pictures a month apart and the difference is huge (the left-hand ones are from May and the right-hand were taken yesterday)

I do get quite excited by the first picking of our fruit and veg. I love these translucent mangetout and they’re all ready to be snapped off and lightly steamed – yum!

Later this week we’ll be able to pick the first of the courgettes and french beans and the strawberries are still going strong.

There are flowers too – I do so love this time of year in the garden!

crafts & knitting · garden stuff · general stuff · summer

weekend stuff

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)34 Comments

We had a busy weekend with a lot of ballet rehearsals for Amy. There’s only a week to go before her ballet school perform Cinderella at the local theatre and Amy is Cinderella’s shadow (as you might imagine she’s very excited!) So that meant a lot of sitting around for me – not too bad when you’ve got a bag full of crochet to keep you busy! I’m working on lots of different bits at the moment which I hope will one day become a collection of cushions!

There was also a little garden time. Everything is growing like mad and there are loads of strawberries ripening.

We learnt our lesson from last year and picked them quick before the birds or the slugs could tuck into them.

They tasted good!

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PS: the crochet cushions above are all based on the summer garden granny square pattern from Attic24’s blog