Gardening with ME: then and now
There are times when having ME can really get me down. Lately not only have I not been blogging much, I’m not gardening much, and I’ve even had to hire someone to help out in the garden a bit. I …
Gardening with ME
Gardening with ME: gardening, blogging & ME
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that there wasn’t a June #GardeningWithME post, and that in general, I’ve not been blogging quite so much. Geranium Ann Folkard next to my garlic crop When you garden with ME or another …
Gardening with ME: kitchen garden update
The strawberries are flowering well Back in January I talked about planning the kitchen garden year. I thought that it would be good for me to do an update, looking at what I said then and how things have panned …
ME Awareness Week
May is ME Awareness Month with a particular focus on Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 May being ME Awareness Week. I blog occasionally about Gardening with ME and this week I have been tweeting some of the impacts having ME has …
Gardening with ME: the importance of the right chair
New outdoor chair Last October, as I was contemplating the impact weather has on my energy levels, blogger VP, over at Veg Plotting, suggested having somewhere close to the house to sit where I could look at the garden even …
Gardening with ME: lists
I’ll confess that I’m a bit of a list person. I like writing lists then crossing things off. Not just for shopping, but also for managing daily life and work. At work in particular I use a spreadsheet to manage …
Gardening with ME: gardening in your head
Sometimes I garden in my head. There are times when I simply have no energy to garden. I don’t mean no energy for a few days. I mean no energy for weeks. Throughout January and into February I was unable …
Gardening with ME: planning the kitchen garden year
The dark days of December are over. The light at the end of the tunnel, that is, the ever lengthening days of January and the promise of a new kitchen gardening year, are in reach. Like many gardeners, I suffer …
End of month/year view: December 2014
Short video of the garden each month during the year (c. 48s) NOTE: this is best viewed by clicking on the YouTube icon* 2014 saw the first full year of my new garden in growth after the landscaping was undertaken …
Gardening with ME: sowing broad beans via micro-tasking
“I’m going to sow some broad beans”. It sounds like a simple enough task. Like you can just pop outside for a few minutes and quickly sow the beans. But of course it isn’t so straight-forward. Before you sow you …