Pests in the garden

No we're not talking about Pu3 and... it was much much worse!! (sorry Putz^^ it was just too tempting -IOU an icecream huh? ...dearest pal!!!)

Caterpillars on the white currants! A few leaves should be removed at this time of year to help the berries ripen, but not this many... Caterpillars have now found a new home.

For the full horror, see the moving pictures:

Troughs, bags n wigwams

Home-made sweat pea trough and bags o tatties


Home-made wigwam for French beans

Spring onions

Arghhh!! No onions in the cupboard - what's beneath the soil?

phew good!

The finished meal - crab fried rice, click to see spring onions!

recipe from Everyday Harumi

Spring flowers - Apr 2010

Heritage variety of Broadbean with red flowers

Redcurrant and Damsons flowers

Flowers in front garden - Pansy, Cellandine, Fratillary

27 March 2010 - out the back

Quicktime video showing what's been planted out and what's surviving (don't "full screen" it else it'll look really awful - it's been compressed for easy download). Since Sunday we've had very strong winds and now snow, it'll be a miracle if the French beans survive - most have got one of two leaves missing already... poly-tunnels next years, that's what's needed!

The Ice-Spider cometh...

Feb 23rd 2010, 8am: Outside temp -6C, inside conservatory ...didn't feel that much warmer inside :-)!

A spider who spins webs of ice has been on the conservatory window!!

Prawn Crackers

Not so much a Petesgarden blog as a peteskitchen blog. Created using the Nokia N95, some photos from the SLR and the Mac OSX software i-Movie. Note: the frying is all done in real-time, it really is that fast! Don't worry that the 'poster frame' is black, for some reason the way Blogger embeds video it refuses to display the first image or pre-set poster frame... such is life!


Original movie format: .mov (Quicktime) File size: 5 Mb

Audio version in stereo: (1Mb)
What I forgot to say during recording... Before you fry them the 'prawn crackers' are hard transparent disks about 20 mm in diameter. Total frying time is around 7 seconds, AND this is actually Podcast No.3, oops ^^!