Hi everyone Apologies for the long absence! Time has just got away with me these past few months. Thought I’d share something with you I saw today… Walking with Jassy, I spotted on the floor a little tree bumble bee??? Very lethargic, very cold – so we had to cut the walk short to bring…
Monday seems to have come around very quickly! We’ve had a lovely weekend, enjoying the weather and Autumn colours. I love going for long walks at this time of year 🙂 Hope you had a happy Halloween… We’re spending lots of time on the allotment this…
Good morning everyone 🙂 I’m sat here with my cup of tea and breakfast… The heating is on 🙂 I love crisp autumn mornings, looks like it’s going to be a lovely weekend. I’ll be on the lottie at some point to collect my seeds from our wild flower patch 🙂 Have a…
It’s only taken us 6 years… But this week we’ve finally made a start to our garden. We never use it, it’s part stone, part weedy/muddy grass… Well no more! We’ve dug the grass up after our friend Eric came to give it its annual (yes annual!!) hair cut 🙂 We wanted stone all…
Happy hump day everyone! I can’t honestly believe how fast the weeks are whizzing by… I’ve not managed to get to the allotment much in the past few weeks but I did pay a visit last week. Finally, the beautiful globe artichokes have started to flower and I’ve been bee watching… 🙂 Lottie Land…
We all love a bargain and gardening don’t we? 🙂 When the lovely people from Grow2eat.com asked me to have a look at their website and discount directory, I jumped at the chance. Grow2eat.com have a great website.  It’s so easy to navigate.  You can find everything for your gardening needs in the categories listed.…
Yesterday we walked through the allotment and paid a quick visit to the plot…. Wow! I couldn’t believe how beautiful it looked. The poppies swaying in the breeze, the bees buzzing around and blobs of shiny red strawbs ready for harvesting 🙂 As we were leaving a huge ominous cloud made its way over……
… Especially in the month of June. I can’t quite believe that Sunday was the Summer Solstice. This year is flying by! I spent some time with my camera on the allotment, taking time to appreciate the flowers and the busy bees 🙂 the strawberries are ripening too… I hope you had a…
It was an early start on Saturday morning for me and Mr.B 🙂 Bags packed, camera charged and tickets at the ready – Holker Garden Festival here we come! 😀 As you know, we love to visit the Lakes when ever we can, but it was the first time we’d had ever visited Holker.  After…
I enjoy visiting different allotment sites.  There’s so much to look at and discover.  You even get the odd inspiration! Last weekend was Barnfield Allotment’s annual plant sale, I’m happy to say the weather was lovely 😀 (Last year it poured buckets which made shopping a bit on the wet side!). We decided to go…
The rhubarb patch is flourishing! I can’t believe how fast it grows – we can’t eat it quick enough! Lovely magenta thick stems of tangy and sweet deliciousness 🙂 there’s just too much of it. I’ve been round to our neighbours and asked if they’d like some… ‘Yes please!’ 🙂 it’s great when you can…
I’m really looking forward to visiting the Holker Garden Festival next weekend 🙂 It’ll be great to catch up with Pete and Gary from the Big Allotment Challange.  There’s some fab talks too.  Must get my copy of James Wong’s Grow for Flavor book so I can get it signed 🙂 There’s going to be…
It’s a little on the chilly side today but it’s not stopped a couple of busy bees enjoying the French lavender in Mum’s garden 🙂 Lottie Land Girl Kaz xx
Hi everyone 🙂 I’m sorry it’s been a while. I honestly don’t know where the time is going! It’s nearly half way through the year?! (No way!) I’ve been really busy this month. I’ve been working hard in my Creative Corner and I took part in the Manchester 10K, which I ran for Beechwood Cancer…
Well Monday afternoon was interesting…! I got a knock at the door, standing there was my friend looking frantic and relieved I was in. Â She had a box in her hand full of cotton wool and paper towels. Â Inside was a baby bird :O he was tiny, wriggling and looking rather sorry for himself. Â He…
…a little April shower! I have to say the weather has been rather lovely in the last few weeks 🙂 Not much rain at all. The allotment needs some though, the earth is so dry and cracked. Mr.B, Jassy and me went out on saturday, afternoon for a walk along the canal. It started out…
I don’t know about you but I’m loving these brighter evenings. Everyone has come out of hibernation and spends more time down on their plots. The lovely sunny weather has lifted my spirits 🙂 I can’t wait for the height of the growing season to come. Little lottie plot 21a looks a bit on the…
Last month I did a guest blog for Laura Ashley.  I reviewed some of their fab garden products 🙂 one of them was a rather lovely bird house. In the last few days I’ve been sat here in my creative corner, watching a little lady sparrow (I at first thought it was a male looking…
Me and my partner John decided to get chickens three years ago because we really liked the idea of having fresh eggs all the time rather than shop bought tasteless eggs that may not have come from the best kept chucks. Neither of us had any idea what we needed to do to look after chickens so lots…
Phew! March has flown by 🙂  I’ve been busy in my little creative corner, illustrating vegetables and fruit for a brand new online program called Veg Plotter. I can’t wait to try it out 🙂 In the meantime here’s the veggies I’ve created… I’d love to hear what you think of them 🙂 Check out…
With our allotment being quite small, I always plan carefully what we grow in our limited space.  It’s surprising what you can grow in such a small area.  I’ve been thinking though… wouldn’t it be great to have some fresh salad leaves for our sandwiches, or strawberries that I can just pop into the garden and…
There should only be one 5 o’clock in a day, that would be PM not AM! but last Saturday was an exception to the rule. It was The Edible Garden Show weekend so we caught an early train 🙂 I’ve been looking forward to going since last year. I won the tickets through a facebook competition 🙂 Fantastic…
Last Wednesday, I gave a talk to a local horticultural society in Timperley. Â I was contacted by a lovely gentleman called Norman last October, who had seen my blog. He asked me if I’d like to talk about my allotment and I thought – superb! He penciled me in the diary for March 2015. Que…
It’s been lovely spending time with Jassy and Mr.B today.  We went for a walk in a local park – so many beautiful springy flowers and colours around.  The birds were singing their hearts out – the soundtrack to our little adventure 🙂 Sitting down for 5 with a cappuccino and sharing cake, I got pretty excited…
Happy Friday everyone 🙂 I’m so please that Grow Your Own magazine asked me to write an article for them 🙂 today their latest April issue was published! It’s one of my favourite GYO mags 🙂 if you get chance to pop out this weekend – buy a copy! There’s some free seeds and loads…
Oh my little fingers are itching to get out on the plot and dig in! I just wanted to share with you one of our AMAZING Christmas pressies! A thoughtful gift from my brother and his girlfriend…. Now these are pretty fab trowels if I do say so myself! but what makes them even more fabulous is…
I can’t actually believe it’s week eight of our bee course (Only one to go – Sad face 😦 ) It’s flown by and has been real eye opener into the world of the little buzzies 😀  Tonight’s class, we’ll be learning about what we should be planting to help all the bees.  I’ve been…
Burrrr it’s been a cold one today! But it’s been lovely to explore a local ‘secret garden’ with Jassy this afternoon 🙂 there’s so many pretty spring flowers dotted around, they break up the browny greens of winter. Here’s what I’ve found…   It makes your heart flutter at the thought of spring being…
Well off I go! My new adventure starts this week 🙂 I’ve been asked by my friend from the allotment to design her some personalised stationery.  My brief was to come up with an A5 sized notelet, with an allotment/grow your own theme.  Knowing my friend very well, I know she loves lavender and loves…
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone 🙂 I’m off to the lottie soon with a big flask of tea and some choccie biccys 🙂 a tidy up day is on the cards – muscles at the ready 🙂
So… plan bee… I call it plan bee because when I picked up my seed order last month, it appeared I had the little pollinating marvels on my mind! I’d bought so many flower seed and hardly any veg seeds 🙂 Not that I’m complaining though 🙂 It’s going to be a pretty sight in…
This weekend me and Mr.Bee visited a local potato day 🙂 Who’d have thought there were so many different varieties of spuds?  We were spoilt for choice really!  Armed with a list of the potatoes on offer, we walked around with our box ready to fill up. There were herbs, vegetable seeds, fruit trees and…
You know that feeling when you get back from the plot, achy legs, back killing you, dirt under your nails… That was us this weekend – and it felt good. We were grafting away for 4 hours trying to get on top of the weeds (we still have a bit to go) and creating…
January is finally over… It was a really strange month for me. I don’t like January, I feel sad after the happiness of Christmas and having to say goodbye to another year.  January 2015 had a bit of a twist… I sadly was made redundant from a job that I loved and worked on for nearly four years. …
It was really exciting to get a hysterical call from my Mum tonight 🙂 ‘Kaz, Kaz you’re on TV :D’ he he How brill I’m really chuffed! Thanks ITV Weather, it’s made my night 😀 Enjoy your evening! Lottie Land Girl Kaz xx
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