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It’s Raining – Again
I see outside it’s raining Just like the day before. The forecast says tomorrow Will bring us even more. The grass is needing cut Some weeds are fully grown “More jobs I am behind with” I hear my conscience moan. I need to clean the car out, I meant to paint the gate. Some fruit…
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5 Ways To Find More Joy In Your Back Garden
(The podcast episode for this post can be found here: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jwrvf-14599ef) We are constantly being encouraged to do more outside or spend more time in our gardens – but what do we do when we get there? How can we make our little patch of Heaven on Earth look more ‘Garden of Eden’ and less…
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Highland Allotment Update
Been meaning to get an update or our alllotment done for ages and finally managed to get round to it – in video form! I didn’t do a massive clean up before filming to yes, there are weeds a plenty but hopefully you will enjoy seeing the veg, fruit, herbs and flowers we have growing…
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Pictures from the Garden to Cheer up Your Monday!
I managed to get a few snaps over the weekend inbetween the downpours so I thought I would share them with you to cheer up your Monday: If you can identify the seed heads of the mystery plant I would be grateful. Let me know in the comments below. They did flower in Spring but…
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The Wonderful Loneliness of Gardening
As a gardener, there are things that only I care about in this house! Things that make or break my day and nobody else even knows about them. That also means I get the triumphs, the highs that go with the lows. I was so taken by this that I decided to be creative with…
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Kale Salad…that actually tastes delicious – honest.
If you think you “don’t like kale” – I’m here to change your mind! I recently went up to the allotment and during the usual tidying and preparing for the season, I noticed my kale plants were looking pretty good for the time of year. So naturally I brought home armfuls of the stuff. Then…
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Nettle Soup
Nettle Soup: The perfectly healthy Spring-time pick-me-up What you need: Foraged nettle tops – about 2 gloved handfuls should be enough 1 onion 1 clove garlic Couple of potatoes – peeled and chopped Chunk of butter Vegetable stock What to do: You can watch the video I made on Youtube about how to make this…
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The Joy of Harvesting your OWN food
*This post is one of my older ones which I’ve brought over from my old blog but I want to keep everything together and let you see the progression…hopefully! Enjoy…. Well well, its been a while hasn’t it?! Have you been busy too? The garden (and allotment) keeps on going, even though the temperatures…
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