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• More Haste Less Seed?

  

  Looking at my lettuce-box on my porch windowsill, I can't help feeling that my eagerness to sow in January got the better of my good sense. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Snippy Snippy Snip Snip

  

  Don't chuck away your empty plastic food packaging at this time of year - get yourself a sharp pair of scissors and recycle them as plant labels. Best... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday. Wishing and Waiting.

  

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  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• New Arrivals

  Returned from shopping this morning to find a huge, heavy parcel waiting for me and a quizzical stare from my husband. Inside the large box lay carrier bags of... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Veg Plotting: Salad Days 2013: Propagated Peas

  Check out how other people are doing with the 52 week salad challenge.Saturday Update - 26th JanuaryAs I'm running out of space in the porch and sound of... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Pruning the Allotment Swamp

  

  A quick drizzly trip to the allotment revealed just how far from cultivation things still are - very claggy underfoot, still too wet to dig. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday - Buried

  

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  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Small Nip of Snowdrops

  

  Finally my snowdrops are starting to come out. Love them in these tiny glasses - I'll have to look out for more of these venerable curvy sherry sippers as they... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Thank the Lord for IPhoto!

  

  In view of the need to cut flowers in April, and feeling mild panic at the muddy expanse in front of me at the allotment today, I peered hopefully into the... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday - Anticipation

  

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  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Hipplecrips Towards the Future

  

  "What's a hipplecrip?" you may ask. In Derbyshire it's a tiny step made by putting one foot in front of the other, touching the heel of your leading foot agains... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Rabbit in the Headlights

  

  The sun is out today and I just didn't know which way to turn on returning from the school run. Paralysed by choices.Jobs to do included:Smashing up concrete... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Finding Buried Treasure

  

  There are many benefits to a tidy greenhouse - fewer slug and pest harbouring pile ups of old pots and detritus, the banishment of plants and cracked plant... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Snow Gardening

  

  Sometimes you are given gifts which you like, but are not sure you will ever find a use for. Such was my feeling when I was handed a pair of furry boot toppers... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Indoor Gardening with Pinterest

  Within my own Apple product-besotted family, I am renowned as something of a luddite. It has come as a surprise to all (including me) that since I've started... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Sprout Alert

  

  This is not a post-Sunday lunch warning, merely an update on what's happening in my boiler cupboard for the 52 week salad challenge.Three days into my mung... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Challenging Salad

  Too cold to sprout this week and indoor areas getting full (including with cats who are being banished for a couple of hours before bedtime as they refuse to... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Tall Trees and Tiny Plots

  

  "Make it stop!" clients plead as they point towards upwardly mobile trees. But how can you make a tree stop growing when that's what it was made to do? Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• If John Betjeman Were a Gardener...

  

  Come friendly frosts and freeze those slugs!Don’t cryogenically save mollusc thugs.They’re top of the list of pestilent bugs.Freeze over, kill! Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME