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About midlifegardener

A new house and a new garden. Having spent the past 5 years mainting my father's garden I am now taking on my own gardening project down the road in a new single store dwelling. The Old Man has passed on but he remains in my thoughts as I develop the new patch

Staying Positive

Posted on February 19, 2018 by midlifegardener

It’s half term and the weather has continued with its succession of weather fronts providing torrential rain to leave the earth  sodden.  Yesterday it did not stop all day although this made little difference to me as I had ricked … Continue reading →

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The Road to Caryford

Posted on January 23, 2018 by midlifegardener

A wet West Country Weekend might, on the face of it, have promised little in the way of gardening opportunities, but Sunday was Potato Day, the Horticultural Hajj for the gardeners of Cary.  It is that time of the year … Continue reading →

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Catalogue ordering to banish the blues

Posted on January 16, 2018 by midlifegardener

Dark wet days post-Christmas and we all need a bit of cheering up.  Now is the time to plan for those longer summer days so I ditched the travel supplements, holiday brochures and flight planners and went and ordered my … Continue reading →

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Pond Life

Posted on January 15, 2018 by midlifegardener

It was back to school for me this week, but with no Saturday lessons, weekends really are weekends: two full days of fun and frolics.  The intention was to start planting in the new garden, as I last weekend I … Continue reading →

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There are places I remember

Posted on January 7, 2018 by midlifegardener

Beatles songs have been on my radar this week with Ron Howard’s documentary of the Touring Years shown on Friday reminding me of the brilliance of their work, as if to confirm what moved Bruno Tonioli to tears on Desert … Continue reading →

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The Autumn of Our Lives

Posted on December 20, 2017 by midlifegardener

Autumn 2017 has seen a significant shift in the direction of our lives and of this blog too.  Despite The Old Man’s typically downbeat assessment of his health last year that he would not be around to celebrate Christmas 2017, … Continue reading →

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The Dog Days are Never Over

Posted on November 19, 2017 by midlifegardener

The tail end of the summer and into the autumn and we are consuming the results of all our previous efforts .  And it is good to get out and do some harvesting or simply get out and about in … Continue reading →

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Late news from late summer

Posted on November 7, 2017 by midlifegardener

It was a wet end to the summer and I never really got the garden under the level of control I might in other years have demanded.  I wrote this piece back in October, before a lot of other stuff … Continue reading →

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A Potatolypse Now

Posted on August 17, 2017 by midlifegardener

“I love the smell of digging in the morning…….The smell, you know that wet earth smell, the garden. Smells like………Arran Victory”.     “Someday this garden’s gonna end…”   (apologies to Francis Ford Coppolla et al.)

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One Month On

Posted on July 12, 2017 by midlifegardener

It’s been a month since I put finger to keyboard (or for some I know it would be thumbs to keyboard).   It is an interesting comparison to see how stuff has panned out in the past 30 days. A month … Continue reading →

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