Wild Life Garden
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The Sap is Rising
This time of year is so wonderful yet intense, isn’t it? The sap is rising, the garden is getting sorted, everything is growing, the birds are nesting, the days, though getting longer, are way too short. I can hardly drag myself in from the garden before dark but then I’m so exhausted in the morning it is hard to drag myself out of bed. I have a wonderful commission with the wood turning so that has to take priority. When I feel I can allow myself to stop it is straight out to the garden. I can see the vegetable garden as I am wood turning which is both wonderful and…
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Plant Cuttings and Calan Gaeaf
When I decided to convert my little field into a wildlife haven I knew I had my work cut out for me. Planting up three quarters of an acre is no mean feat. It was also going to involve a lot of plants. I knew I had to learn about taking plant cuttings to propagate them. Obviously they take longer than buying plants but this is a long term project anyway. Also if a friend happens to have a plant that you like and a couple of spare branches that need pruning…. My mother has always taken plant cuttings but since her stroke I was unable to ask her advice.…
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At Home, The Future
As a woodworker it obviously makes a lot of sense that I love wood – its texture, figuring, infinite variety of subtle changes within the same species let alone between different trees, the varied challenges thrown up by environmental factors during growth, etc… However, does it make so much sense that I also love trees? Surely if I love trees I don’t want to see them chopped down? True, but they are not chopped down for me. In fact much of the wood I use comes from trees that will still be growing for a long time to come and I’ll blog about that in the future. What I wanted…