Gardening
Spring gardening and win a gardening kit from Innocent

Spring gardening and win a gardening kit from Innocent

We try our best, but I think it is safe to say that when it comes to gardening, we’re not the best! However, this never puts the girls off trying, so they were very excited when Innocent offered them a little gardening kit to get them started. They received a shiny new watering can, some...
Rhubarb and ginger jam

Rhubarb and ginger jam

After visiting my Mum a few weeks back, I came home with 2 bags full of rhubarb! I adore rhubarb and was ridiculously excited about trying out some new recipes. First up I thought I’d make some jam by combining the rhubarb with one of my other favourite ingredients – ginger. I am a big...

Spring gardening

Not to be outdone by Grace and her grasshead, Faith and I have been busy outside planting some seeds and, by some stroke of luck, they have actually started to grow! I’m not known for my green fingers, but it seems there may be some hope for me yet. Faith had some money for her...

Meet Mr Grasshead…

This year we are taking a much more organised approach to our gardening as last year we left it a bit late to start growing things! I’ve already sown seeds in trays and my Dad has dug the garden over to get rid of the weeds. He has created two raised beds for me to...

How does your garden grow?

On the whole, not too bad for a gardening newbie! This year is the first year we’ve really got to grips with the garden. What we lack in skill, we make up for with enthusiasm, so a few months back Grace and I weeded and planted seeds in a somewhat random manner! We watered them...

The Gallery – Nature

The girls and I just love to be outdoors. The first thing I do every morning is rush round opening all the curtains and windows to let the outside in, and the girls always ask to go and play outside. Being outside lifts our spirits and gives the girls so much freedom to run around...

Gardening newbie

Despite moving into our house 7 years ago, we’ve never got round to doing anything with the garden. I guess to begin with we both had busy careers and didn’t have the time, or the skills, to do anything with it. It has always niggled at me though as I grew up in a house...