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Tales from my veggie patch

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When we moved into our house we reckoned that it would be a 5 year project to sort it out and make it lovely.

 

Needless to say we had our 5 year anniversay at the start of the month and there are still a few things on the to do list…  But we [...]

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Tales from my veggie patch

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Asparagus is one of my favourite vegetables

 

Such a favourite that three years ago on a strange whim (which may or may not have had something to do with being pregnant and borderline nuts) and slightly urged on by my Dad, I decided to start an asparagus bed

 

What you need to [...]

Innocent garden giveaway

girls gardening

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The lovely people at Innocent are at it again.  If you get through as many smoothies as we do, you’ll have noticed that they are giving away cute little packs of seeds with every box until the end of April.  There are 6 to collect including carrots, tomatoes, cress, basil, violets and sunflowers and [...]

Notes from my smallholding – the first fruits of the garden

raspberries

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I always look forward to the time of year when the veggie patch stops being just about digging and weeding and when it starts to be also about picking the produce and eating it!

 

I’ve been rejoicing that we’ve had lots of lovely rain this last week.

 

Not only are my new [...]

Gardening: the unexpected benefits of benevolent neglect

Wild garden

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I have to admit to turning a blind eye to one part of our garden (well actually there’s more than one but I pretend that the whole compost heap/nettle fest is actually in a field so not technically part of the garden – nothing like trying to rationalise being lazy…)

The front garden [...]

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