Category: gardening
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Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. We have lived in this house for almost two years now. And the garden has been my fortitude. Watching my husband get diagnosed with cancer and then brave through it was challenging and hard and the first few weeks I was so angry…
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Fruits I am growing in my garden
List your top 5 favorite fruits. I am new to gardening so had my allotment last year but only managed to maintain and grow two large beds. Fruit was furthest from my mind as I wanted to focus on my veggies. Tomatoes The fruit that grows anywhere. I love tomatoes, I grew four plants last…
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Rainham Hall National trust
Discovering beautiful places I have always thought that Rainham was a bit of a shit hole, apologies Rainham. It’s surrounded by lots of flats and warehouses and generally appears a bit gray and soulless. I should have known that every ugly has a beauty and Rainham village is adorable. Beautiful buildings, independent shops little pubs…
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A trip to the Garden centre
My favorite way to spend the day! A heavenly day at the garden centre. We headed to battlesbridge first to wonder around and take a peak at the antiques. It’s fairly dog friendly there so we went for a nice walk and then had a couple of pints. It’s a quintessential English village with duck…
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Apricotta Cosmos
Cosmos are one of my favourite flowers! Yesterday I sowed some of my prized seeds. When I was on Facebook a member was recommending some cosmos tips. It turns out he grows them professionally and shows at Hampton Court and Chelsea, he wasn’t even trying to sell his seeds, but I enquired and bought the…
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Gardening: my everyday happiness
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? My husbands cancer chained me to the house, especially in the first few months. If I needed to leave I would ask his mum to come over. Complications with his surgery meant he couldn’t walk far so he just needed someone with him. My garden and…
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Last night I planted my asparagus crowns
What’s the most fun way to exercise? Gardening is great exercise. There is no doubt about it. From lifting huge bags of compost, digging trenches for my crowns. building a temporary fence. It’s constant movement in the great outdoors. Or in my case, East London. Gardening is work. It hurts your back, your knees your…
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If only gardening was an Olympic sport?
What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most? We don’t watch a lot of sport in this house. Maybe the World Cup in football and rugby. Maybe some of the Winter Olympics but we don’t go out of our way. We just don’t care for sports. But gardening, I love seeing gardens develop. I…
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As a gardener I just love weather plus I am British
What is your favorite type of weather? I check the weather app everyday. What is my favourite type, well I need all of it. I need the frosts and cold weather to kick my tulips into gear when they are in the earth. It may kill my dahlias but that just means they need another…
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Spring time in the garden
It’s been a wonderful day, dry and sunny. We woke up, had coffee and bacon buttys then walked to the butcher to order a ham for Good Friday . Then stopped off on our local coffee shop for a snack. On our walk we found that a neighbour was having a tree chopped down. The…
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