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Not the weather, which is glorious but totally unexpected given Michelle and I were snowed on just over a week ago, but planting out. There are many oh-so-casual strolls being […]
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Rebooting
There are birds everywhere. Small, noisy, nervy sparrows, bold robins, flashes of blue & great tits, crowds of starlings hopping after each other, mellifluous blackbirds, emerald green, squawking parakeets, woodpeckers […]
Sometimes it snows in April…
Looking out the window now we have steady sleet gusting down. Dismay reigns in gardening land… I’m going out in a few minutes and not looking forward to it one bit! In anticipation of the frosts all my tender plants are in from the balcony, crowding the landing. At the […]
Persistent disquiet & unending chill
Bit of a gloomy title, but then I am fed up of grey, chilly days, and, more importantly, the chilly nights. By this time last year I had the greenhouse […]
Greening dark & tiny spaces
Randall Towers shares a small, north-facing balcony. It gets some sun, but not excessive amounts. Usually I use it to isolate chilli plants for seed saving or to harden off the phalanxes […]
Seedling hokey-cokey
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz…So much so that I’m already out with the shears, trimming back grassy borders to the plot. Clippings go in the daleks, in happy […]
Hailhead
Devon, specifically Exeter, doesn’t like us much. We’ve been there with Small Child and, as usual, the weather was pretty stinking. Saturday treated us to cold, fleeting sun and, to add insult to injury, hail. Which stuck in my hair, inspiring Himself to call me Hailhead all afternoon. I wasn’t […]
Petard – hoist by my own…or a fear of direct sowing
Michelle strews seed around in gay abandon on her Wycombe plot and, more often than not, plants pop up, just like they should. I try it and Nature descends – mice […]
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