Gardening
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Potato harvest
Back in April, just for shits and giggles, I planted half a bag of Tesco “multi-purpose” potatoes which had sprouted slightly. These came up hugely, and today I harvested them. I wanted them…
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Gardener extraordinaire
During this last week I have not only spent many hours on my own garden, but also assisted in clearing up St Mary’s church garden in Ladybank. As my third assignment for the…
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St Mary’s Garden
J and I went to the little branch church in Ladybank to help clear the back garden today. It was basically a solid, and very daunting mass of weeds. I was expecting them…
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More gardening
I spent the morning pulling weeds out of our garden and deadheading flowers. In the four days since I last did a lengthy stint we have managed to accumulate two 90l sacks of…
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Waterlilies and hard labour
So far we have five waterlily buds between our two ponds. The first one came out yesterday. Unfortunately no time for looking at flowers today as I am back to decorating. I finally…
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Garden Today
My Mum who has not been too well asked me to put some pictures of the garden online. Here we go. One of our three ponds with waterlilies just starting to come out…
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A memory of Norfolk
We have a long border around our front lawn. When we moved in it was choked up with foxgloves, daisies and some rather straggly rose bushes which had largely reverted to the wild…
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Herb garden
My herb garden is coming on apace. I did not manage to get a picture of it because it was pouring down when I was out there doing the picking – but here…
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New plan for front garden
I am really really sick of some of the garden borders. The back garden borders are full of plants, some of which are wild flowers (borderline weeds) and some of which are herbs…
