After seeing how good Pauls new greenhouse was looking, I thought i should make some progress with my own About two weeks ago I bought a second hand greenhouse from an old lady who was unable to use it anymore. A very good quality glass greenhouse about 12ft x 6ft. This is as big as [...]
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Out with Shed in with Greenhouse
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Strawberrys and Shelves
This latest weekend was a good one in terms of progress towards the full growing season. The greenhouse is now fully installed and useable and we now have a fantastic solid workbench / shelf (thanks to my Dad for building it!). I have moved a lot of my seed propagators to the greenhouse now as [...]
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The windowsill it is
With the garden inaccessible due to the bad weather i have decided to turn my attentions to the office windowsill! We have a few plants on the go here, firstly the now three year old chilli plant. (unsure of variety). It’s already growing it’s first chillies of the year. Grows big medium strength fruit. We [...]
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Is this the Spring?
Well, Good news is that we havent had one frost this week. Bad news is that the rain hasn’t let up once. All i have managed this week is a quick rake of my small raised bed. Not really good gardening weather! The chickens really don’t seem to mind this weather one bit. they look [...]
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Greenhouse!
At last my new greenhouse is complete and I can now start to build shelving ready for all of the plants to migrate from the window sills of the house. It actually turned out to be a relatively easy assembly in the end and I was very happy with the end result. We have also [...]
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This weeks progress
I woke up this morning to be confronted with another heavy frost. When will we get some signs of spring arriving? It always seems like such a long wait and then suddenly everyting in the garden bursts into life! – I cannot wait. I planted my onion sets two weeks ago now and I am [...]
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Introducing the Ladies
Well this Blog is about Chickens as well as gardens so I thought it about time I introduced the Ladies. Emse is the one with White plumage and Mertle has black plumage. They are both very tame and have no problem being picked up and they regularly come right into the house. They are brilliant [...]
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Why Blog about gardening?
A diary is a great tool for the grower, it makes perfect sense to keep a record of what worked and what didn’t. I cannot count the number of times that I wished I knew what time I planted something last year. Next year I will simply have to look back over the blog and see! The [...]
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Lessons learnt
I have decided that my main error last year was overzealous planting. By this I mean putting 4 chilli plants into one pot for instance or 4 potato plants into one bag. Yes, the plants grew but they did not create the optimum amount of produce. Another error I made was to plant everything at once, instead of [...]
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2010… the preparations begin
Hello and welcome to my first garden blog! My name is Paul and I have always loved gardening, ever since I was at primary school and won competitions for the tallest sunflower and biggest tomato. I have only recently got back into it all though, within the last 3 years or so. I had a good growing [...]
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