I love growing things from seed. I particularly love starting things off in the autumn, just as everything else is dying back. But I have a problem. My garden is only 10m x 10m, and the trees, bamboo and evergreen shrubs I planted to screen us from the neighbours take up a largish chunk of…
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My excuse for not posting for months (and months) is that, in my guise as a web designer, I kept intending to put together a site that included my garden blogging, but which also held a calendar for me to leave reminders for myself on and record what I did when. But I kept getting…
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Well, no gardening this weekend, but the first two squash plants are showing signs of life, and half the French beans are pushing their way above the soil, so at least there seems to be some progress. Other than that, it was all armchair stuff – when we have cleared the bed in front of…
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