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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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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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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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
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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
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
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
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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