I haven’t been up to the allotment much in the past few weeks. A combination of health issues, work and visitors have conspired – although I have sown quite a bit for planting out later. The weekend before last though, which was warm and sunny, saw FIL and I wander up there to attempt to…
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I am not, by nature, a patient person. During my childhood and early adulthood phrases such as “bull at a gate” and “burning the candle at both ends” were used liberally to describe my behaviour by my nearest and dearest. Since getting ill over a decade ago my biggest challenge has been unlearning my tendency…
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Dealing with couch grass can be a nightmare. The roots are covered in eyes. If you break a root off and the remaining piece has an eye, it will regrow. Carefully forking over the ground and extracting whole roots is half the battle, rotavating it is a disaster because it just breaks the roots up…
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