Category: gardening
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Asparagus fails
Before I moved to my new flat without a garden, I attempted to grow asparagus a few times. Let’s see how that turned out (spoiler: not well). The first thing I did was, a couple of years back, I bought a pack of seeds. This was before I really understood why people didn’t grow everything…
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How I moved countries with two babies and prepping update
This past year has been quite chaotic. I stopped posting on here the day before I moved countries from Ireland to England with my two babies. The whole house needed to be packed into one small van, then we had to drive (and sail) to England. The hardest part was planning how to time everything.…
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The Marketing Adventurers League is Coming!
Are you having adventures (or misadventures) in marketing? Do you want to join a supportive community of side hustlers/small business owners/new business owners looking for advice on how to get established and scale their business? If so, the Marketing Adventurers League is for you. Join the waitlist here to be the first to hear when…
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40 things you can clean in a dishwasher
Got a dishwasher? Did you ever think its powerful cleaning capabilities could be used on other things than plates, cups and pots? Here are 40 things you can clean in a dishwasher: Bin lids Put them on the bottom shelf at the highest temperature for maximum cleaning. Small plastic rubbish bins If you have those…
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A beautiful peacock butterfly came to visit
Following on from my posts about attracting pollinators to the garden and which plants are good for pollinators, my buddleja has been sitting outside the patio doors for the last couple of weeks waiting to be placed in its final spot (once the flowerbed has actually been laid) and we’ve had two lovely flying visitors!…
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10 Plants for Pollinators in Ireland and UK (and how to plant them)
When we first viewed our new home, I was surprised that the back garden was just grass. There was no fencing on one side of the garden, either, and next door’s back garden (and the one after them) were also just grass. It seems like people on our street just don’t really bother about landscaping.…
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Preserving the onion harvest: 3 easy ways
I have been growing onions as one of my main crops this year. Finally, over the past few days, they’ve been showing signs that they are ready to be harvested. Onions can last about 7 days in the ground once they’re ripe, so I tried to time the harvest to avoid the abundance of stunning…
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There’s a frog in our garden!
We’ve been trying to solve this mystery for about a week. Last week, while we were busy laying the drainage to ensure our heavy clay soil can be used for anything other than very soggy lawn, my husband spotted a little creature behind our oil tank (the oil tank is for heating, if you’ve never…
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Installing a high raised bed: Garden update
I’ve decided to put in a high raised bed on one side of the back garden. We are still working on the drainage problem and I will write a lengthy article about this once it’s all sorted. Part of my waterlogged clay drainage plan is to build a high raised bed (30cm tall by 2m…
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Avoiding tomato blight organically in Ireland
Friday morning, my husband’s weather app came up with something that we both found confusing. “There’s a blight warning for Ireland!” he told me, thinking it was bizarre. I raised an eyebrow because I didn’t know this was still a thing. For me, potato blight is the stuff of history books and represents a very…
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