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Tackling Allotment Jobs (with success!)
I apologise for my lack of presence lately – life has been busy. While the home-schooling continues, so do the appointments, letters and such for my husband as he continues to battle prostate cancer. When you add in the usual things that need done, it doesn’t always leave a lot of time to get gardening…
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Garlic – done differently!
Instead of just planting garlic in the ground, I tried a few different methods to get it growing and I’m delighted with the results. A couple of years ago, on the allotment, I planted out all my garlic and waited patiently. Sadly, all – and I mean ALL of it, rotted away in the cold…
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Garden & Allotment Get A Little Love!
There is a LOT to catch up on. YES – we finally have our car back and that means the allotment is much easier to get to and I can move the many bags of compost out of the front garden. Before I show you what I found on the latest trip to the allotment,…
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Operation: Pumpkin Rescue & Other Garden-Related Reporting
I had thought I’d escaped all damage from the latest storm. I was wrong of course! Before I went to the allotment the other day, I decided I had better rescue the big Atlantic Giant pumpkin from the back garden. It was in a large pot and rapidly trying to take over what little space…
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Garden Tour for the end of July 2025
I grow everywhere and in everything! I cut the grass yesterday and we took a car-boot full of rubbish to the dump so I’ve been feeling those productive vibes in the garden. The back isn’t 100% yet but it’s good enough that I can get stuff done now which I’m very happy about. Seed HQ…
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Great Results From the Garden
The harvests are starting to come in now, thick and fast. I feel unprepared if I’m honest. I am still clearing, weeding, tidying and planting out and yet, the plants that were planted out yesterday (feels like), are starting to give out some of the best harvests I can remember. I took some photos to…
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Growth in the garden!
I haven’t done a gardening update for a while and there has been a lot happening. For one, I’ve made a new friend in the garden! First of all, I’ll show you what I’ve had to deal with on the plot. I swear, my workload would be cut down if other people were just a…
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Car trouble + garden issues = a difficult week to find the wins
I have tried, I swear I have. I’ve prepped beds, weeded like my life depended on it, checked the weather forecast…frequently but I still haven’t got the plot fully planted. I have finished putting up the supports for the peas & beans and even got peas planted out. When I went back up to put…
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A-Frames and ‘Rustic’ Pea Supports!
It’s all about the legumes on the plot Can you guess where I’ve been? Yes, the plot was calling. Actually, I thought I’d done a post earlier last week to fill you in but apparently not…tut tut. So to put things right: Early last week, we went back up to the plot and I put…
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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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Mental Boost on the Plot
Gardening isn’t just about the vegetables and flowers. We had a pretty short visit to the plot this week and even though I hadn’t been up for over a week, it wasn’t looking too drastic. I was needing the time there. I don’t know if it’s the clock change or the temperature noticeably dropping but…
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Garlic Moon?!
Ok I’ve mixed two things I did together to come up with that title. We had a gorgeous, sunny and warm day here and I don’t care if it’s not ‘meant’ to be like that here in October – I’ll take it! I nipped into the new polytunnel in the garden and checked the temperature…
Coming from my slice of life to help you find more joy in yours
