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Gardening Catch-Up
Come and see what I’ve been up to! Thought it was time to have a little catch-up with all things gardening as I’ve been doing little bits here and there. The featured picture, by the way, is what I saw outside a local shop last week and thought it looked lovely so of course, I…
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Did Someone Say SPRING?!
I think it’s here…. We had some utterly terrible weather last weekend and for most of this week, then something strange happened….the wind stopped and that bright thing in the sky got switched on for a bit. This causes magic to happen in the garden. I ventured out into the garden to see if I…
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A quick catch-up
Well friends, isn’t time just flying by at the moment? I realised I haven’t done much ‘blogging’ over the last few days so I thought it was time for a quick catch-up. I’ll just have to imagine you are sitting at the table with me, enjoying a cup of coffee/tea/whatever you found in my cupboard.…
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February Garden Jobs Continue!
I’m trying to stay methodical with these jobs but it’s a struggle! The last time I gave you a plot update it was to show I finally got a job finished, albeit a small corner of a bay but still, it helps. Well, despite the cold, we went up again today and managed to FINALLY…
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Not the weather for Gardening
I’m worried about wind – and no, not my own! I’ve been worried about the strong winds we’ve been getting recently, since a fence panel came down few weeks ago (should be fixed this week 😊) and the other day I got to watch my little mini-greenhouse explore areas of the garden he doesn’t usually…
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Life
It’s been a while Friends, how are you? It feels like ages since we spoke – ok I know it’s only been a few days but it feels like longer to me. I’ve got some allotment news for you first of all. On Monday, we managed a visit to the plot and got working on…
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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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Being busy and making plans
We managed another quick trip to the allotment today – but I didn’t take any photos or videos! No, I’m saving it until the job I’m working on has progressed a little more. Dearest Son was working on the pond area as it was overgrown and we couldn’t even see the little tyre pond! There…
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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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A February Weekend on the Allotment
Finally got some progress to show! I’ve been working steadily on one bay at the allotment and I was determined to get it finally finished so we could move on to another area. I am very pleased to say that not only did it get finished, I also got the boundary between it and the…
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Babysitting a caterpillar!
The other week we spotted a fat green caterpillar crawling over the carpet upstairs, heading to Dearest Son’s room. At the time, we still had a lot of frost so I didn’t have the heart to put him outside. I grabbed the first thing I could get my hands on to put him in –…
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