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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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
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
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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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
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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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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