We've reached the point we've been waiting for since the beginning of the year - eating our hard work. We are regularly tucking into salad, herbs and dwarf beans with the rest not far behind. The birds have disappeared (anyone else noticed this?) and have been
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In late Spring Scott and I noticed the soil in the raised beds was crawling with little black flies. And not just a few, there were thousands. I have a quick scoot round the garden almost every day and didn't see a hint of this problem the day
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Our front and back garden are quite different to eachother so I always feel like these posts are a bit of a mishmash of stuff. In the front, the gladioli bulbs I planted back in February are flowering. They were assorted colours so I had no idea what was going
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The veg patch is having a real growth spurt at the moment and we've eaten something from the garden nearly every day this week. Our hard work is paying off. I opened the curtains one morning to find a courgette flower beaming back up at me. At the
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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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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
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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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
Building the raised beds was a big victory because it mean't 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
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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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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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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