Salvage
My diary and actual allotmenteering have both had something of a hiatus. Earlier this year I got back into horses, via volunteering at the RDA. A time-consuming passtime to add […]
Summer routine
I’m getting back into my routine – wake up early, make coffee, shove on the worst of my wardrobe for allotmenteering in and slap factor 30 on any exposed skin. […]
Building a show garden – the Colour Box experience!
For the last few days I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working as a volunteer on the build stage of a show garden at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. First […]
Typical
I spent 2 hours carefully watering and feeding everything on the plots Tuesday morning, even getting up at 5am to make sure I wasn’t hogging the tap. It persisted down […]
Prepping for RHS Hampton Court – Hortus Loci
Yesterday was a fabulous day. A training day with Perennial, the charity for whom I’m volunteering at RHS Hampton Court in July. I will be very hard to miss – […]
The Mulberry Experience – Charlotte Russe
Before Fran moved to a Bedfordshire village I’d never eaten a mulberry. Not an unusual thing, I don’t know many people who have. But she has a beautiful specimen in […]
Thwarting greedy beaks
There have been unmistakeable signs – berries on the ground and then the surreptitious waddle-past, eyeing up the potential for another raid. Word was going back to Pigeon HQ that […]
Birds do it, bees do it…
But right now and most visibly, it’s the ladybirds. Everywhere. And it’s a welcome sight – I have red blister mite on the redcurrants, black aphids on black currants and […]
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