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Showing the front garden some LOVE!
I’ve been waiting all week to get to work on the garden at home and today was the day! Most of this will be pictures to show you the before and after. I’m not finished yet as I have to get some more woodchip but you’ll certainly get the idea of what I’m trying to…
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Super Seaweed and Petrifying Pruning
A quick update on the allotment! Despite the minus 1C temperature on Sunday, I told Dearest Son it was time to go get some seaweed. So we did. There is a place not far from us where we can collect it very easily and it doesn’t seem to matter when you go, it’s always cold.…
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Why I WON’T have raised beds & paving!
I might ruffle a few feathers here but here goes… I was recently watching a very nice man on YouTube set up yet another raised bed on his allotment. As he was explaining what he was doing, I took a minute to really look around his plot. It was all raised beds – and concrete…
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Frost makes a comeback!
Our latest allotment trip turned out very productive I was a little surprised and slightly downhearted to open the curtains this morning to see everything glittering in frost. I had planned to go to the allotment and a little bit of freezing wasn’t going to stop me! I filled up the flask to keep Dearest…
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Big thaw = Plot progress!
At last we got back to the allotment I was very happy to get back to the plot today after all the ice had finally melted. It’s been hard to see everyone else on YouTube working on their plots or gardens and sowing their seeds and I haven’t been able to get through a wall…
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Bird Fail=Success!
Stick with me and this will all make sense. We are in the middle of some cold weather but tonight we are to expect as low as -10C (that’s 14F). I was looking out the window and saw some birds were trying to get what little seeds were left on the feeder so I thought…
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Why my allotment gardening is on ice at the moment
I still have a lot of preparations to make on the allotment plot to get it ready for Spring. The Christmas period usually puts things on hold for a little while even though I keep seeing people on YouTube with their Boxing Day or New Year’s Day videos (I don’t know how they manage that).…
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A strange thing going on in the garden
I took pictures! I walked past one of my tubs the other day and had to do a second take – did I just see what I thought I’d seen? Isn’t this December? We haven’t had Christmas yet have we? Oh so many questions! The cause of all this was the rather sudden and unexpected…
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Harvesting in December?!
I wondered if I could harvest 5 different veg from the allotment (after the storm). We went up to the allotment today (Sunday) and I had 2 jobs in mind: to check for damage after the storm and to see if I could get a harvest of 5 types of veg. Well, the good news…
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Cold shoulder, cold hands, cold everything
The temperature dropped again today so naturally I got the camera out. There was no gardening to be done today at these temperatures but at least now my bathroom is shining! Isn’t it amazing how busy we can get when we put our minds to it? I ventured out to the garden for a little…
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No snow or aliens on the allotment today
I’ve heard the aliens have landed, the rest of the country is 10 feet deep in snow and we can expect to be nuked at any moment – my preferred course of action is to go to the allotment and leave them to it. I managed to get a surprising amount of work done today,…
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Tick this allotment job off the list!
I have to share some good news with you. We were on a break this week so made it up to the allotment 3 times – that’s a lot for us, especially at this time of the year. We’ve been working on one side and spreading manure all over it. This was how it looked…
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