This post nearly didn’t happen. I’ve spent the past two weeks picking tomatoes with nephews, changing computers and filling in forms that require me to go in to brutal detail about my current health, or lack thereof. The nephews were delightful but exhausting, the rest just exhausting, and it has left me feeling a tad…
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I find the End of Month View meme hosted by Helen@Patient Gardener incredibly useful. Its not that I don’t think about the garden, analyse what I like and dislike, at other times, but it gives a focus for it all, and forces me to get my critical hat on and try to learn. Apologies, but…
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I can’t quite believe it is the end of May already. A May, I might add, that is ending with a distinctly Aprilish feeling to it, cooler and with very welcome rain – and not so welcome wind! The rain means a shorter post than normal, as I’m afraid my dedication didn’t extend to putting…
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Its that time of the month again, when Helen@The Patient Gardener hosts the End of Month View meme. I love the chance to have a nose around other people’s gardens, but I love the discipline of taking a long hard critical look at my own garden – or bits of it – even more. I…
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Its that time again, when Helen (aka Patient Gardener) hosts the End of Month View meme and we get to check out progress on one another’s patches. Check out Helen’s blog and follow the links in the comments if you are as nosy as I am. Better yet, join in! I love staring over the…
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