With the rubbish weather forecast I was not expecting to be able to get outside quite as much as I did this weekend. I ended up making quite alot of progress. I have nearly finished the greenhouse. All the glass is in and all the broken panels have been replaced with 4mm corrugated polycarbonate. I [...]
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Progress in the garden
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Spring snow and hail
Well looks like i was wrong last week about Spring arriving! Snow, black ice and hail on April the 1st! And I am not joking… Here is the garden in the snow. Was a bit worried that the new greenhouse that is only half glazed was going to crumble in the gale force winds, but [...]
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Out with Shed in with Greenhouse
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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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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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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Wellrooted seemed appropriate…
Hi I am Doug, I have been really looking forward to the time when i could really indulge my passion for growing things. I have been growing things for years but i have never really had the space to grow what i wanted. Aged 31, I have finally managed to move back into a House [...]
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