Happy new year all. I started my gardening this year on the 7th Jan. Apparently January and February is the time most people are depressed, but for the gardener it’s a time of excitement and anticipation! I am really excited about the garden this year. First Job was to plant my garlic in pots in [...]
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2012 plans.
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Spring progress 2011
Spring is well and truly here and the Veg growing for 2011 is in full flow! So far I am growing, Numerous chili varieties, Numerous Tomato varieties, Draft French Beans, Dwarf Kenyan beans, Dwarf yellow beans, Peas, Butternut squash, Pumpkin (Dills Atlantic Giant) Runner Beans, French Beans, Celery, Salad, Courgettes… Onions (Ailsa) – See Dougs [...]
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Ideas for next year.
One of the reasons for this blog was to enable me to learn from mistakes from the previous years… I usually make the same mistakes year on year so hopefully this post should help me out! This year’s thoughts so far… Firstly, not enough lettuce. Perhaps next year I should dedicate a couple of smaller [...]
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Strawberry
The garden and greenhouse are now officially full… I wonder if i am going to be able to move around at all if things grow any more. Shouldn’t complain! First things first, I must first introduce a new member of the family… “Parsnip” She is an amazing little Springer spaniel, just 11 weeks old. Now [...]
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A week away.
This weeks update with lot’s of pictures! Things have been growing well, we have had a fantastic cycle of rain then sun then rain then sun. Nothing like it to make the garden grow! Heres the pics, The Apache Chilli in the first pic has grown so much in the last couple of weeks. (See [...]
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Monday update
Been really busy this week so Lot’s of pictures and not so much talking! – What a relief! We were lucky enough to get acouple new arrivals to the garden this week. Firstly a spearmint plant kindly given to us by our friends Claire and Dom. It’s going to get a good spot in the [...]
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Sit back and watch
I do like May. Sometimes March and April can be really hard work in the garden. Having only moved into our cottage in January we had so much to do! May is time to slow down a little and watch everything grow. This is the month the greenhouse lives up to it’s name and starts [...]
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Needed some rain.
The showers over the weekend were welcome because the garden was getting a little on the dry side. Nice to be waiting for rain rather than sun for a change! I finally got my Kelsae onion plants through from DT Browns. – See my giant onion attempt! All this sunshine and showers is doing wonders [...]
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Good for the Veg.
Wow, another weekend of fantastic weather. Things have certainly started to move up a gear in the garden. Seeds are sprouting and plants are growing. The pepper bed is finished and has been fully planted up with nine plants, five “Big Red” and four “California wonder”. I have used the space in between the rows [...]
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Fantastic weekend
Finally spring is here. It’s official. What a wonderful weekend in the garden, just what we needed to recover from a slow start to spring. This weekend I got down to some serious sowing, Second round of Runners, Broad bean and Tomato were sown. Onions from seed were planted out. Potted garlic was finally planted [...]
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