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6 months ago

Garden Journal - A Bit of Autumn Tidying It's a strange thing, but I always seem to do more gardening in autumn, when the whole thing looks scruffy and needs to be tidied up. I guess summer is a busy time with lots…

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4 months ago

Garden Journal - Cutting Back the Pond Irises One of the jobs I should do every winter is pay attention to the pond and cut back the pond irises. But the last couple of winters I haven't done it aggressively enough. The…

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3 months ago

Garden Journal - Getting Light To The Far End Of The Garden This has been a project I've been meaning to do all winter. It's happened over the course of about three weeks, in between work and in the dry days between winter storms.…

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6 months ago

A Plague of Mushrooms Out of nowhere, a huge plague of mushrooms appeared in a neglected corner of the garden. They are next to my office, where the birch tree used to be. We had to have it removed…

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6 months ago

Garden Journal - Tidying a Neglected Corner of the Garden (and Cat Antics) If there's one part of our garden that gets neglected the most, it's the far end, to the left of the pond. Now our tree surgeon has trimmed the large bush that overshadowed the…

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7 months ago

Garden Journal - Walnuts ! We've got a walnut tree on the front flowerbed. It wasn't deliberate, the squirrels gave it to us when they dropped a walnut they'd stolen from a tree in the garden of a house…

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9 months ago

Garden Journal - Harvesting The Basil The basil in our greenhouse has been growing like a weed ! So yesterday my wife harvested a load of it. There's still quiet a bit left on the plant, so it should grow back and…

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9 months ago

Garden Journal - The Greenhouse is Getting Productive ! Back in the early spring, I put a new greenhouse up at the back of our garden - I wrote a post about it HERE Well, my wife has been doing most of the work in it, and has…

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10 months ago

Garden Journal - The First Loganberry of Summer It's finally happened ! This year has been a tough one for our fruit and vegetables. We had a cool, wet spring, and temperatures have been consistently about 5 degrees cooler…

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11 months ago

Garden Journal - Tidying Up An Overgrown Flowerbed Okay, it's time to brave the job I've been putting off for far, far too long. Clearing out the bramble patch that should be the front flowerbed. For as long as we've had the…

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