Incy Wincy Spider!

As well as the lack of planning, the cold October climate and the 2 foot of snow; there were many another reasons my gardening seriously tailed off in 2010...

Eeeek!

From around September this fellow and his/her big brothers and sisters began stringing their webs between my beautiful vegetables, trees, etc. The one above had a web spanning the path between the shed and one of the front beds and the largest one of all took up residence inside my growhouse. :O

Now although I have seriously reduced my aversion to spiders since producing my offspring (I didn't want them to pick it up from me, like I did from my Mom) I can't help reverting to my original shrieking and leaping out the way when the kids are not around... 

say for instance when I'm in the garden... 

or when they're in bed and one walks across the lounge while I'm watching TV!

Anyway, the reason I mention this now is that I've just had a little potter around the garden to check on progress and happened upon two of these baby garden spiders, already setting up residence and claiming  their dominance over my garden... :(

I also had one crawling over me yesterday as I was enjoying my cup of tea in the sun. Wiyot kindly removed it from my back, while I (as usual when the kids are around) remained perfectly calm, saying I just wanted it off so I didn't accidentally squish it!

Well time to get battling the phobia before the garden again becomes a no go area!

Garden Chess

As I mentioned previously, my gardening tailed off towards the end of last year... well actually, my gardening stopped, is probably a more apt description! So now, and for the last few months, there has been little growth in the garden. Today as I sat in the sunshine enjoying a nice cup of tea, all I could see was 6 empty veg beds :( 

What a waste of space! 

Shouldn't there be something growing??

So I got my veg books and magazines out, and have now planned out what will grow in the garden till April 2012!! :D Whether it will work out that way remains to be seen! But I feel content that there is at least a plan in place now! Thank you to the designers of GrowVeg.com, I couldn't have done it without you!

... 

Well I probably could, but it would have been more difficult!

On a more positive note, lots of good has been happening in the garden; the shed and fence have finally been painted, the left and right boarders have finally been properly marked out and mulched, a tool rack has been put up in the shed and all the toys/tools/pots that have been lying round the garden have been gathered up and put away.

Also, most of the seeds I recently sowed have begun to grow, so in a week or two my beds will finally have some life in them! Yahoo! I'm really looking forward to some salad leaves fresh from the garden :9 Until then Tescos bagged salads will just have to do.

More seeds that have been sowed are my seed potatoes and some early carrots. I've sown both of these into potato grow bags... Can't see why they can't be used for other veggies other than spuds!?

Well thats all for now.

TTFN x