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Our garden: June 2015 (2)
Can you believe it's Thursday again already? I don't know where the last few days have gone. This past week hasn't gone to plan and life has felt cruel. I wasn't going to write a post this week but looking at the
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Our garden: June 2015
My garden update this week is a little scatty. But life feels a bit all over the place so perhaps that's why. Scatty life = scatty garden. Anyway, I've found some nice things so hopefully you'll see something you like! These geraniums were all leaves
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Weeds + potatoes = allotment
Two words to describe allotment life this week. Weeds. Potatoes. Hundreds of weeds. Potatoes popping up all over the place! We remove a potato or weed and another pops up. It's like playing a giant game of Whac-a-Mole! The few days of rain we had seemed to kick
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Call me Barbara!
Our allotment plot has come a long way from its overgrown state three weeks ago. It doesn't feel like the same space. The area covered in straw on the right is our fruit patch; filled with strawberries, rhubarb and a blackcurrant bush. The previous owners left some strawberry
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Garden in limbo
Since taking on our allotment, the garden at home has been in limbo. There is no change in the front, that remains an insect/pollinator area. But the vegetable garden in the back is being decomissioned for the most part and gradually moved to the allotment. So this weeks update
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One step closer to The Good Life
Last week we got a little closer to self sufficiency. There was a knock at the door one evening and a man said he'd noticed our enthusiasm for gardening and asked if we would like some allotment space! I don't need to tell you what our
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Spring colour
I felt a little pang of nostalgia putting the photos for this post together. This time last year the front garden was just a dirt patch. There were no flowers or shrubs and I was in the early stages of planning out a cottage garden in my head. We spent
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Colour me Sunday
The sun was so warm on Sunday it felt like Spring! The plants looked like they were drinking up every last drop of sunshine. Although in the shade it was still very much Winter and a reminder that I mustn't get carried away and plant lots of seeds
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At last! Snow!
Tuesday morning was a good morning. The alarm went off at bleary eyed o'clock and after staying in bed for an extra 20 minutes Scott got up whilst I laid there like a seal pup. He looked out the window and because the Beeb have been threatening snow
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Frozen solid
Tuesday morning was cold. When I opened the curtains I knew the temperature had really dropped overnight because the back garden was covered in thick frost. Our garden is quite sheltered so it's rare for us to get any at all. The whole garden was frozen solid, even