Pea Sticks Our early peas are coming on nicely now. We had protected them from the birds but now they need some support. So as we are living in the gorgeous forest of dean we took a little trip up the road and there of course wood that is ideal for pea sticks is in abundance. ( we do have …
Zen and the art of Gardening
The Benefits of Gardening Many people have written and spoken of the benefits of gardening on health from newspapers to the national health service, but most of them only mention the physical side. I’m not decrying that, naturally good physical health is vital to us all and even just pottering is beneficial, but there is more to be gained than …
Dive bombed by squabbling sparrows in the garden
The garden in Cinderford Well, yesterday we dropped into Coleford Garden Centre and bought a new arch for the garden. Like all these things you have to put the thing together before you can use it. While we were struggling with screwing it all together a pair of sparrows suddenly dived down and missed us by inches. They were squabbling and …