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Tag Archives: raspberries
Currant affairs
At the start of July we took a hard-earned break in the sun. Prior to our departure the red currants and black currants were just ripening up into what was promising to be a bumper harvest. With black membrane underneath … Continue reading
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Tagged bind weed, black currants, blueberries, currants, raspberries, red currant jelly, red currants
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Feed the Birds
Mary Poppins the musical is back doing the rounds and so I somehow got an ear worm in my head that is straight out of the show. Ear worm is an apt description as the song is “Feed the Birds”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Brussels, chickens, feeder, fieldfare, kale, psb, purple sprouting, raspberries, rats, robin, starlings
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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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Keats had it right
Keats had it about right with his Ode to Autumn: A season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. In the garden the first early morning mists heighten the aroma of gentle decay and dwindling fecundity. The apples are dropping, we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden, gardening, John Keats, mellow fruitfulness, porridge, raspberries, runner beans, To Autumn
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