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Tag Archives: chillis
One Tomato, Two Tomato
The clocks have gone back, so maybe summer is finally over. The harvest should have been safely gathered in, although the recent warm air currents seem to suggest there is still more growing to do. I cleared two of the … Continue reading
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Tagged chillis, courgettes, garlic, passata, ratatouille, sun-dried tomatoes, sweet peas, tomatoes
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Pre-season training
We are into March. The days are lengthening. The February seeds have germinated and are looking sprightly: the race to produce those early tomatoes has started and the chillis are up too. We need to make sure they are in … Continue reading
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Tagged ailsa craig, basil, bird bath, broad beans, chillis, frogs, frogspawn, greenhouse, hurst greenshaft, leeks, Nicotiana, peas, sweet million, tomatoes
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Early Birds Seeds
Winter arrived at the end of January with the snow and frost, but before it did, I had managed to plant some extra irises and a Delphinium from the Old Place in the herbaceous border in the back garden. I … Continue reading
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Tagged aquilegia, chillis, hesperis, iris, irises, Korean Mint, pennard plants, pipiche, Potato Day, Real Seeds, sarpo mira, Shipwrecked
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Late news from late summer
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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Tagged chillis, Garden, gardening, green peppers, potatoes, purple sprouting, shallots, squashes, tomatoes
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One Month On
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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Tagged Cabbages, chillis, cosmos, courgettes, curly kale, cut flowers, Elephant garlic, foxgloves, garlic, kale, new potatoes, shallots, sweet peas, 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
New Term
And so here’s the summer, and what have we done? Another Easter over and a new term begun… Easter is an exciting time of year, with the greenhouse beginning to burst at the seams with seed trays which themselves start … Continue reading
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Tagged baileyhill bookshop, basil cabbages, brokali, cape daisy, chillis, Commonfarmflowers, courgettes, leeks, marogold, Nicotiana, peas, potatoes, purple sprouting, rudbeckia, zinnias
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Looking to spring
Back from half term we have had some frosts in Somerset which has knocked everything a little. I actually brought my sweet peas in from the greenhouse just in case they get nipped by the frost. The temperatures did not … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergines, chillis, gardeners delight, gardeners world, monty don, sweet peas, tomatoes
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Bleak Mid-Winter?
The sky was opalescent yesterday morning as I took the dogs out for their daily ramble. The clouds were grey and wind-blown, but a small aperture had been rubbed away by the elements to reveal a patch of blue with … Continue reading
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Tagged astroemerias, chillis, cornflowers, fieldfare, hellibores, mole hill, mowing, penstemon, phacelia, sparrowhawk
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