Category: Garden Plans
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Moment in time: sowing seeds
Today was a wonderful day. I finally got to sow some pumpkin, courgettes and swash seeds. Just two of each. Perfect little pearls of hope. I am starting them off early so my harvest will be bountiful! I walked round my garden today, smiling at all the plants that are growing, Muscari and daffodils clashing…
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March is sowing time: day 6 no social media
We got up this morning, made bacon sandwiches ( giving up pork is very slow to happen) and I went straight out to the garden. With all the renovations we have a lot of cardboard which is a great tool in the garden. My allotment is still a mess, just like my garden, green house…
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Harvesting my garden
My allotment has been a true escape, a place I can delve into for a few minutes or a few hours. tidying up, weeding, trimming collecting. All the clearing and filling and digging was worth it. Because it’s harvest time. I am now collecting potato’s, tomatoes and courgettes every other day. I have planted more…
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Gardening plans : creating a haven in my back garden using Pinterest
Hello, hope you are all enjoying the sunshine. I feel so far behind compared to all the garden accounts I follow. My alliums are tiny and won’t flower this year but you never know. My lupins are stunted by the small container I have left them in so I need to repot them this weekend.…
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Kitchen garden or allotment?
I have been writing about my plans for a vegetable garden for a while now. I am not sure what to call it, is it my kitchen garden as it’s a garden off my garden or is my allotment? Probably doesn’t matter. It just looks like a fenced off overgrown area at the moment. But…
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Spring is here, time to grow
I have been in my garden almost everyday. Sowing seeds, weeding, cutting back shrubs clearing rubbish. With 3 garden spaces to look after it’s a lot. But I enjoy every minute of it. I have taken to sowing seeds on my lunch break and exploring new vegetables and things to grow. My green house is…
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Dahlias: investing in your garden
Gardens are one of the last things people thing of when renovating a house. We are lucky that we have a well established front and back garden in the new house but there is still things I want to add as well as move, trim and replace. If you spend time outside and like entertaining…
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Is a hose pipe ban on the way?
Next week is August and the temperatures are set to soar again. It may shock you to hear that in England, known for lush green lawns and a lot of rain. We can’t cope when it comes to the weather! We are such a mild country that any extremes completely throw us off! Snow =…
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Choosing a garden gate shouldn’t be this hard!!
We want a garden gate that offers us security but searching for is tricky. It appears the humble garden gate cannot be a thing of beauty if you want it to have practical functions. We mainly want a garden gate for security. So no one can enter our garden, so it needs be lockable! It…
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13.use the space
Vertical planting is a great way to save space and show interest at eye level. I thought I would take advantage of this and finally handy my basket. Last year was a bit of a disaster as I tried to grow lobelia but ended up with about 5 flowers!! Never mind they were 5 of…
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