Personalised Skip Award

My sister and her boyfriend came for a visit last month and they spent most of their time (far more then they expected) clearing out my parents' garden. It took them days and days and they entirely filled a large skip with garden waste, it was epic! So as a thankyou i decided to make them a little award to commemorate all their hard work. I sprayed a plastic toy skip (they things you can find on ebay!) with gold paint and then mounted it on a left over billy dvd shelf which id painted dark brown. I then added a little plaque id had specially engraved with their names (ebay again!). Its currently in the post winging its way to australia so i hope they like it :)

Restaining the garden furniture

 

I took advantage of the recent (rare) nice weather to spruce up our garden furniture by restaining it. I like this before and after combo photo, shows what an improvement the restaining was :) Especially since id bee putting it off for months!

Cress garden - update

 

My Postcarden cress garden is going strong. Bit worried the cardboard base might rip though as it was a bit delicate when i moved it to be photographed... Probably my age old issue of over watering causing me problems again!

Postcarden

Have you seen these amazing Postcarden? Theyre so clever, its a little box postcard that opens up into a 3D 'garden'. It comes with absorbent paper and cress seeds so you can grow a proper little garden. I know youre supposed to post it to someone but i had to keep it for myself! I cant wait for my orangerie (thats what ive decided it is) to look like something out of a post apocalypse film - where plants have invaded all the buildings!

I'll post an update when the cress starts to take over...

Gardening - Home Grown Veg

Ive gone a bit home grown vegetable mad this year! After last years success with tomatoes and carrots ive decided to try out peppers, peas and courgettes this year. So my conservatory has been turned in a greenhouse/seedling nursery - the photo below doesnt really show the full extent but the rest of the room was so messy i was too embarrassed to post the photos of it!! My courgettes already have buds on them so fingers crossed for a bumper crop of those. Although i may have slightly mis-calculated when to plant them, the threat of frost doesnt really go away totally until end may/beginning of june here so i may have a busy conservatory for a few months yet! Its normally Marley cat's territory, hope he doesnt mind sharing it...