Gardening
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Everything in the garden…
Sorry to keep harping on about the garden, but another lovely day here on the dry sunny East coast, and after more hard work by J and I the garden is really starting…
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Invasive Plants
I love our Fife garden. There are many reasons for this, the first being that it is just a gorgeous garden – although we are five minutes walk from the shops it is…
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Cauliflowers
What is it with the size of cauliflowers? On the whole they are disappointingly small, but from time to time you get an unnaturally huge one. I do not know if I have…
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Concert and planters
Nice concert at St James this morning to go along with the Farmers’ Market – it was a saxophone quartet from St Andrews. I made a St. Clement’s cake (oranges and lemons) –…
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In progress
I dug the bed out this morning – it is a cold, north facing bed so I am going to need to be careful what goes in it – but at least it…
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Before….
This is a raised bed by the side of the house – I am going to turn it into a herb garden. At the moment, it is a sea of weeds intermixed with…
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A clematis pole
This dead tree was here when we moved in. It had a clematis growing over it last year, but it was so ancient and woody that it was 90% stalk and only about…
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Clearing the garage
Today I finally finished clearing the garage. All the stuff we brought with us (10 months ago now) has been either put in its correct place, given away or binned/recycled. This was a…
