Back in September I took some cuttings of Rosa 'Seagull'. I did this earlier than usual based on something a friend said and she always ...
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After too many days being inside over the Christmas holiday period, I was feeling a bit desperate to get outside and do something physical. We've ...
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Well, today I haven't been outside once and am now feeling sluggish and tired. Silly really because it was a sunny and not too windy ...
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There are/have been lots of berries this year. The cotoneasters have been especially fruitful but now the fieldfares have stripped the branches and there are ...
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I started off the day having a bonfire, we needed to burn many cardboard boxes which had been stored in our barn for rather a ...
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I may not have written for a couple of weeks but during that time have managed to get quite a lot of planting and transplanting ...
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It was almost windless for  couple of hours this morning so I took the opportunity to do some spraying. This involved walking round parts of ...
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Last week the forecasters went overboard telling us all to 'prepare' for damaging gale-force winds. I know some people in the south and south-east had ...
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Yesterday I had a successful bonfire even though the heap of hedge trimmings and garden waste was rather wet. In order to keep it going ...
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At last I planted the garlic yesterday. The soil in the veg bed was beautifully workable, I was able to lightly fork over the ground ...
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So, I was right to do as much in the garden as I could while there was a window of opportunity. It didn't last long ...
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Today I removed 3 barrow loads of Verbena bonariensis from just one border. Now there's plenty of potential to plant new plants. We've dug over ...
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