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I can hardly believe it's the end of the growing season for us already! We took on a 64 square metre, overgrown plot in April and decided to just get stuck in and see what happens. Partly because we thought getting a plot was a few years away
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Last Friday I was stood at the back door looking for something worth photographing in the garden. I couldn't really see anything and was about to walk away when something caught my eye. Our apple was ready!! It had fallen from the tree and was sitting in the
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The growing season is well and truly winding down. At our allotment, all of the onions have been pulled up, the fruit bushes are bare and the beans are slowing. I am thankful for the [temporary] respite from weeding but the bigger part of me is a little sad to
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Summer has started to wane. This week the mornings have been a little colder and the days slightly shorter. When the sun has made an appearance between the rain showers I've dashed out the back door with my camera to capture as much Summer colour as I can.
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When I'm cooking dinner I often ask Scott to nip out to the back garden and grab a handful of fresh herbs for me. To help him remember what's what I made a few wooden plant markers. They are super simple, rustic and natural! What you
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There are few things in life more satisfying than growing your own food. Lettuce leaves are one of my garden staples because they only need a little bit of space and regrow when you pick them, giving you an endless supply over the Summer. They can also be grown on
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My photos this week are mostly of the back garden. The raised beds are overflowing and there are lots of bees and hoverflies around. The star of the show this month has to be cosmos. They are really colourful and their bushy leaves fill in all the gaps. Grandma and
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When we moved into this house we put lots of effort into setting the back garden up as a vegetable garden ready for 'operation Good Life'. However, since taking on the allotment a few months ago the space has been used in a different way. The raised beds
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Our allotment is booming at the moment! Last Saturday we officially became Good Lifers when we harvested enough food to fill a large trug. We had potatoes, broad beans, onions, strawberries and a big bunch of cornflowers. On Sunday we had a mega weeding session. It was baking hot and
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Nine months ago I was planting Autumn garlic cloves in the back garden. Garlic takes a long time to grow and I find myself getting increasingly impatient as the months tick by. The shoots creep up little by little over the Winter months. During Spring they have a big growth
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June is one of my favourite months of the gardening year. It's a time when you are rewarded for all your hard work; clearing from winter, sowing, potting on, attentively watering seedlings and taking frost action. Me referring to bounty probably tells you this post is about our
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* Morning! How Does Your Garden Grow is being hosted over here today as Annie is away at Glasto. Between May and June gardening seems to consume me. I spend all Winter thinking about what to plant and looking for the right seeds. Then when Spring arrives I have lots of
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