the back garden

Four square metres, kept badly and recorded carefully.

• Log
• About

I started writing things down the year I lost an entire row of beans and could not say why. The notebook has been more useful than anything I have bought since.

Log

• 2026-10-26
  Beans, and the wind The frame was strong enough. It was in the wrong place.
• 2026-09-14
  The pear tree, again Second year of nothing, and a guess about why.
• 2026-08-03
  A soil test, read twice The numbers were fine. My reading of them was not.
• 2026-05-22
  What the water butt holds Three weeks of rain, and still not enough in July.