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Tag Archives: beans
Freezing in the Heatwave
When my parents were looking for a house in the second half of the 1970s, their choice was influenced, in large part, by thoughts of self-sufficiency. They bought the new house because it had been a smallholding, and they proceeded … Continue reading
The Dry
Two weeks ago I started this post. I don’t know what got in the way of me completing it. Perhaps it was the end of term which passed in a whir of school trips, successive cover lessons involving repeat showings … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged beans, blueberries, blueberry, carrots, cavolo nero, courgettes, french beans, greenhouse, hose pipe, hosepipe, kale, lettuce, mangetout, runner beans, Salad, sunflower, tomato, tomatoes
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End of Term report
It’s that time of the year again when the evening chill sharpens, the leaves start to turn and we spend a fruitless Sunday morning trying to purchase Glastonbury tickets. And it has been months since I delivered any sort of … Continue reading
Of Mice and Moles
The sun lay on the grass and warmed it. And across the expanse of green the midlife gardener looked and saw the soft volcanic shaped mounds of light brown earth stretching before him. The moles had been working hard over … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, Broccoli, Brussels sprout, Cabbages, Field Mouse, kohl rabi, mice, mole hills, moles, mouse trap, peas, Steinbeck
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Live and let live
The garden is coming on a-pace at this time of year and the new seedlings have managed to hang in there despite some rough weather. At the beginning of May we had high winds to contend with and more recently … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged badger, beans, blackfly, foxglove, french beans, leaf spot, mice, moles, pak choi, roses, runner beans
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