The Inelegant Gardener

I started this blog because I got an allotment, and I wanted to journal progress on it. We said goodbye to the allotment not long after chil...

It's nearly 19 years since my first blog post . Things have been somewhat sporadic since 2012, though. Also, blogs aren't quite the ...

 We've had the moth trap for around 10 months, though much of that was winder and a very cold spring. Moth identification is very diffic...

For my own amusement, I thought I'd re-start the blog in a fitful way. I've missed writing now that I've finished my EdD. I'...

 Bill Cat has been missing for over a week, presumed dead. We got Bill, and his brother Ted, from a rescue centre around six months after we...

 

Courtesy of new drive and pathway, we now have a nice, but narrow, border full of shiny new topsoil. It's going to be dry and it's r...

Many people get excited by gardening in the spring, when plants start to grow again, flowers pierce through the grey of winter and sun (mayb...

I couldn’t make a living from gardening. There are many reasons for this, the main one being that I’m a bit too slap-dash, not taking quit...

Whoops. It's been a while. I had my head in books for most of the summer, and not interesting, garden-related books, sadly. It's sur...