End of March antics

Here we have the Tulips finally beginning to bud up, might even see some colour soon! The weather has been so nice lately that I have removed the cloche from the strawberry plants that have been overwintering. I guess the huge holes in the cloche helped them harden off and so far so good. I [...]

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Catch Up Time

Despite my early and well paced start to the growing season the rest of my life has been particularly hectic this last month leaving me with very little time to update my wee blog. So lets have a look through the last picture upload and see what’s been happening. Here is Suki and his visiting [...]

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Going to pot

Has been a fresh and blustery day. Hubby and me got up early-ish and headed out to the garden to get some bits and pieces done before the weather got nasty. I took the four plug pepper plants out of their little safe gel filled pots and moved them up a few sizes. I read [...]

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Hedgewars!

Well I’ll admit I’m a bit new to this suburban living, tenement flats have been my thing for the past 10 years. But, I’m pretty sure hacking someone’s hedge down like this is not the way to make friends and influence your neighbours! We are unlucky in that our right hand border is shared with [...]

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First Gardening Weekend 09

Had a good bout of dry weather at the weekend so Hubby and I got out and got stuck in to the garden for the first time really this year. First, Hubby created an extension to last years raised beds. This will be used for salad crops and random experiments. Also added a slab in [...]

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