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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Dead Air
It rained yesterday. Bucketloads. Which was a good thing. Not in the “It’ll do the garden good” kind of way, because the garden is plenty wet enough thanks. No – it gave us the excuse to stay indoors and watch … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, black spot, Bolt, cabbage white, caterpillars, cosmos, courgettes, Ennis-Hill, Evil, french beans, fruit cage, Gatlin, Gladiolae, Good, green beans, greenhouse, Johnson-Thompson, lawn, leeks, pennard plants, potatoes, psb, raspberries, rudbeckia, Salad, veronica
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A Walk with a View #2
After the yellow weather warnings last night and the subsequent torrential rain this morning it seemed timely to post another photo album from one of our neighbourhood walks. This morning as I set out at 8.30 with the dogs I … Continue reading
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Tagged deer, dog walking, Ella, Fudge, Grapes of Wrath, maize, Manor, Steinbeck, Stile
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The secret of good timing
When my parents were developing the garden and working it up to produce vegetables on an industrial scale they used to start to plan their holidays around the seasons in the garden so that they would not be away when … Continue reading
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Tagged Elephant garlic, garlic, lautrec wight, mangetout, Onions, peas, purple wight, sciatica, sugar snaps, sword in the stone
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Put your back into it
Back in mid June I suffered the ultimate gardening injury – a slipped disc. Well, strictly speaking I understand it to be a herniated disc. I wasn’t even gardening – I had simply been doing some house work in … Continue reading
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Tagged amelanchier, bean tree, sciatica, slipped disc, tomato, tomatoes
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