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Support
It is a great end to the week when you get to a job that you have had on your mind all week. The broad beans needed to be tried up. I was worried that we would get strong winds and they would fall...
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Tomatoes
It is a great feeling to now have the tomatoes in the ground and watered in. As a gardener in England we worry most about blight. To try and keep blight away as long as possible I have planted...
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Viola
One of the plants that I am very happy to see growing freely in the very straight lines of vegetables is violas, I have a very new sweet one that I was sent the seed of from a friend in Australia....
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Peas
The peas have started to set seed which is always something we look forward to! The pea that I am most interested in tasting is P. ‘Golden podded’. This is new to me. I got the seed while in Australia...
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Wheat
Wheat is not something that I have through about growing in the past but a friend of Thomas’s sent me seed last winter. We planted it and I am really getting excited by its development. Maybe this...
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Fruit cage
We have finally got to the fruit cage. I have waited till dear Thomas came back, it is an area that should not be taken on without a friend. I do have to say Thomas has done a lot more up there but we...
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Tomatoes
It feels great to have put the first tie on the tomatoes. Maybe later than in other years but not sure that winter went on so long the past few years. We will just have to see what sort of summer we...
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Courgette
It does feel like we are in the middle of summer when the courgettes start. As a gardener seasons are important to me and the vegetables that I am going to eat in these seasons.
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Beans
It is a great feeling to have all the broad beans pick and in the freezer now. I think it is a job best done all in one go. Christopher use to do the same and I can see why, it does not drag on this...
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Egg
I have always hated pigeons because of what they eat in the vegetable garden. We had one in the fruit cage on the weekend which I could not get out so gave up. On Sunday morning she was gone but a pile...
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