I love this time of year. Spring and Autumn are – and always have been – my favourite seasons. Long before I discovered gardening I found the sense of change exciting. For so many years September was always the start of something new – moving up a year at school, new courses at University –…
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I’ve had a pretty lousy week, paying for a run of lovely, busy weekends and the welcome gift of some work with a health back-lash that I have been in denial over until I finally had to concede. I took a day off. After a lie-in, followed by breakfast in bed with a good book,…
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Following on from part 1 of my latest allotment update we’re back to planning – and me changing my mind… With FIL’s help we have dug over and marked out the front left bed. The plan had been to have two 2m x 1m beds and add them in to the crop rotation plan, giving…
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For the past week I have been trudging up to the allotment under leaden skies, dodging rain showers and the occasional hailstorm, to dig. So it is somewhat ironic that on the first sunny day since 17th February (not that I’ve been counting) I drove up to the plot in the van. One of the…
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The allotment kept me awake the other night. It was the raspberries. And my greed for space. My original plan had a fruit bed 4m x 1m, the rightmost of the centre beds. There was going to be a row of raspberries with a row of strawberries in front. Only then I wound up with…
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