The long spell of warm weather has left me with rampant tomato plants and Dahlias eager to be let out to grow huge and lush. In common with many others, I have Space Issues. Conventional wisdom would be not to put tomatoes and Dahlias outdoors until the last risk of frost has passed at the…
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I overslept this morning, and woke up feeling unrefreshed, my body aching from cleaning the cooker. One day I will remember that “little and often” works better for so many things. My mind was already racing with all the things I “had” to do today day. I stumbled into – and then out of –…
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The garden is looking a little tired and cold now. The pond border is largely bleached of colour, enlivened by the evergreen leaves of the Hellebores and the impressively tough snapdragons which are clinging on. The Hakonechloa macra is still showing some remnants of autumn gold, but everything else is pale, like the frost that…
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