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Gardening in Scottish weather
I haven’t been up to the allotment much this week as the weather has been so bad and we seem to have allocated Sunday as a day to go up regardless of the weather. I told Hubby it’s my ‘outdoor church’. When we arrived, Dearest Son stayed in the car and I went to check…
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I accidentally lied – and rain boobs!
You may be wondering what on earth I lied about and what the heck are rain boobs, so allow me to explain. Hear me out. A while ago I put up a post saying it would be the last polytunnel update. If you don’t know the situation, I built a DIY polytunnel out of scrap…
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Finally transplanting tomatoes and cucumbers into polytunnel
Thanks to the great Scottish weather we’ve had for the last few weeks, my plants are really suffering but I’ve finally managed to get some tomatoes and a few ill-looking cucumbers transplanted into the polytunnel on the plot. I’ve used the string method, where you tie the string to a bar at the top of…
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The Final Polytunnel Update
In the last update I gave you on the polytunnel, I showed you the very basic structure I had managed to get together using whatever I could get my hands on. Well hold on to your chair friends because I am delighted to announce: IT’S FINISHED!! Is it perfect? Absolutely not. The pipes lean backwards…
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Garden Plan – Part 3
A quick background to the project in case you have forgotten or haven’t been here before: I replaced the cover on our polytunnel at our allotment and even though it’s a very make-shift cover, it gave me the idea of making a polytunnel (of sorts) for the back garden. Did I have a spare frame?…
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Replacing the greenhouse cover
As I type this, I am in pain! I worked hard for a few hours solid and I am very happy with the result. Regulars to the blog will know my greenhouse has been yellow for some time thanks to a make-shift cover I put on a while ago, but this year I took the…
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Garden Plan part 2 and more seed sowing
It finally happened, we finally got some sunshine and although there is housework to be done, I looked at Scooby and said, “let’s go to the garden”. It was time to make a start on ‘the’ project. I’ll be honest. I spent a lot of time getting all the spare poles and bits out and…
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Garden Plan – Part 1 and a little allotment time
Hooray, we made it to the allotment and it looked ok even though it’s been a while. It might not have missed me as much as I have missed it but I left with a lighter, happier soul: Brace yourself, things are about to get ugly…. Now for some good news on the garden project…
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Plan….E..F…I’ve lost count
Well there’s another week with no allotment visit. Between the weather and our health it just wasn’t possible so I busied myself with other smaller plans and tasks but ran into a problem. Again. I have one of those plastic tunnel/green house things at the allotment – what should I call that thing? It isn’t…
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