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If you're thinking about growing garlic at home, this post will be right up your street. This box contains enough garlic to keep a whole horde of vampires away. We eat so much of it we should be immune anyway - which is a good job because this
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Hold on to your hair folks, I'm about to present you with the most exciting thing you will see this week! Slightly dramatic to anyone not living in our household, but still, humour me. Saturday we decided to have a roast so I went to the veg patch
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The garden feels like it's really starting to slow down this week. Although I'm really looking forward to Autumn I'll miss having a busy Summer garden with lots to do. Having said that, less time in the garden means more time for craft projects
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A few weeks after moving into our house last year we noticed birds circling the sky above us. I did a bit of research and the RSPB helped me identify them as house martins. After a few days they started flying closer to the house; they were looking for somewhere
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This week is the one year anniversary of moving into our house. And that means one year of having a proper garden! WHOOPPEEE! This post is a bit of a mishmash of photos from the year so not all of them look great. When we moved in the garden was
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August has been a month of eating good food, some we've grown, some we haven't. There is plenty of everything, which makes it a good time to squirrel a few things away for Winter. Blackberries are perfect for this. They're a bit early this
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I popped into the garden for my daily caterpillar hunting duties the other day and got a little sidetracked. I found 7 caterpillars and also a good pile of runner beans, 5 chillies, 3 dwarf beans, 1 cherry tomato and a big plum tomato. If you read my garden update
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I feel like we have our own slice of the Good Life this week. We've had quite a few veggies from the patch, lots of things are almost ready to pick, we're eating homemade jam and I'm drying chillies and herbs. We picked our
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We've reached the point we've been waiting for since the beginning of the year - eating our hard work. We are regularly tucking into salad, herbs and dwarf beans with the rest not far behind. The birds have disappeared (anyone else noticed this?) and have been
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In late Spring Scott and I noticed the soil in the raised beds was crawling with little black flies. And not just a few, there were thousands. I have a quick scoot round the garden almost every day and didn't see a hint of this problem the day
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Our front and back garden are quite different to eachother so I always feel like these posts are a bit of a mishmash of stuff. In the front, the gladioli bulbs I planted back in February are flowering. They were assorted colours so I had no idea what was going
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The veg patch is having a real growth spurt at the moment and we've eaten something from the garden nearly every day this week. Our hard work is paying off. I opened the curtains one morning to find a courgette flower beaming back up at me. At the
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