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Our garden: July 2014
I feel like all I've been talking about on here lately is gardening and plants! But this is the first year I've had a whole garden to look after and I'm loving it. It's also taking up quite a bit of my
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Nature indoors
Before we had this spell of hot sunny weather, I'd been buying the odd bunch of flowers to brighten the house up. But they were quite expensive, didn't last that long and some came from the other side of the world! So I decided to start
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Garden birds
During the last couple of weeks we've seen some new garden birds appear. One evening Scott noticed swallows were circling the sky above our house and within a few days they started building a nest in the apex of our roof. There was a very small amount of
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Our garden: June 2014 (2)
Over the last week we've had equal amounts of success and failure in the garden. The raised beds in the back garden are full of sciarid flies (also known as fungus gnats). It seems the wet weather, broken guttering on the building next door draining into one of
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Building raised beds
Building the raised beds was a big victory because it meant we finally had growing space! If you follow my blog regularly you will know that when we moved in the garden looked like this: The back garden was completely paved with large areas of pebbles. It was a bit
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Hoppy Easter
I spent about an hour on Good Friday morning hanging out the bedroom window with my camera looking like the village pervert. Despite what it looked like, I was in fact taking photos of the birds. Here's what I snapped: A scruffy Blue tit sitting on the fence.
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Our garden: April 2014
A few weeks ago I stumbled across racks of plants outside Waitrose. It was this that kickstarted our efforts with the front garden. At the end of last year we dug up the manky grass in the front garden to prepare the soil for this year. It sat bare for
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Our garden: March 2014
You know Spring has officially sprung when you start seeing insects in the garden. I think the warm weather we've had over the last week has coaxed them out from hiding. We built our raised beds a few weeks ago and only thing holding us back from planting
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Our garden: January 2014
We've made big progress in the garden this week! Last Thursday, four 2.4m softwood sleepers arrived. If you've been following my garden posts you'll know I have been desperate to start building our raised beds. After finally finding the right sleepers and a
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Homemade bird fat cake
Over the weekend I made some treats for the birds. We'd almost run out of fat cake and it's quite expensive to buy if you don't have space to store in bulk, so I thought I'd make my own. I found a