Upcoming Events

I'm supposed to list upcoming events in the Moosey garden on this page. This should force me to be a better organised gardener, planning ahead, preparing properly for new gardening events.

October is really the middle and the end of spring, all rolled into one. The garden will be accelerating - hopefully poco a poco! I'm just going to make every moment count (I say that every month).

As well as weeding and planting I'll be doing a lot of wandering and sitting, too. There's no point in having all those lovely new (old) garden benches and seats and not using them.

Celebrating Jerome the Cat's Long Life

On the animals front, this will certainly be Jerome the grey cat's last October. Hopefully she will spend it lolling in the sun on her balcony feeling OK and purring. She has a nasty tumour in her shoulder - but hey! Eighteen cat-years is pretty good, and she's had such a grand life. Love you, Jerome!

Garden Gnomes :

Collecting gnomes has been one of my silliest ideas yet.

It's another gnome month, as I have big plans to get even more garden gnomes into the Moosey Garden. There's room for more - I recently rescued twenty-two (I'm serious!) from a charity shop, and there's another old concrete fishing relic coming to retire here. Can one have too many garden gnomes? Hmm...

What Plant Am I? Quiz

If you're totally bored (and no gardener should ever be, by the way) you might enjoy a quick romp through the What Plant Am I? Quiz. There are a host of lovely plants which might end up being your horticultural soul-mate.

Along the way you might find yourself being a Cactus, or a garden gnome, or something unsavoury like a trailer load of compost - but don't worry. Everything will turn out roses in the end - there are actually a lot of roses in the quiz. Try the Moosey What Plant Am I? Quiz out next time you have a break from the garden.

Moosey Newsletters

I really enjoy writing the Moosey Newsletters. This month's newsletter is very springy, and the web-pages it links to are very, very colourful. Even if it's not your spring season you'll enjoy seeing the rhododendrons and camellia flowers.

There's a subscribers list you can add your name to, if you're interested in receiving your own copy. I now do the newsletter mail-out myself, so hopefully I won't get your names or addresses wrong, or send you a load of compost! The newsletters are on the site as well - you can download the latest by clicking on this newsletter link.

Moosey Gardening Forums

The Moosey Forums have slowed down a lot lately - maybe we are just all too busy in our gardens! Have a peep and join us as we twitter (not 'tweet' - we're all a bit old fashioned) on about this and that. Lots of forum friends have their photographs on show, and some of the journal writing (like Tea Root's) is just so descriptive. Maybe you'll visit too and share your garden with us.

If you're registering in the forum you'll be shown some little thumbnails of cats and cars - and asked to select the cats. You may be amused, or even slightly annoyed by this, or simply puzzled. It's a tiny anti-spam trick, and if you have any trouble, let me know at once and I'll do the box-ticking business for you.

Cheers, and all the very best for October.