ODE TO A BEAN
Vital, rampant, like a lover you embrace the cane Reaching to the sun, slender stemmed, white flowers abundant. With the passing of the solstice your juvenile crop, Tender, deep green,…
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Vital, rampant, like a lover you embrace the cane Reaching to the sun, slender stemmed, white flowers abundant. With the passing of the solstice your juvenile crop, Tender, deep green,…
Read more9th February 2011 With a brief but lovely sunny day yesterday I was able to complete the preparation of one of my polytunnels which will be planted up with…
Read moreI hope you find the slightly new look website helpful. It’s early February and I have already been busy sowing seeds in the greenhouse. I started a couple of weeks…
Read moreDear Reader, Please forgive me for being so tardy with my blogging,but the last couple of months has seen terrific weather – both hot and dry and warm and wet….
Read moreAlready it is the second weekend in June and I only have to blink to miss seeing how everything is growing. but with success is disappointment. my early peas, Feltham…
Read moreDespite my best efforts to keep up to date with my blog i am failing dismally. needless to say, with an unbelievably cold May still ongoing the garden is not…
Read moreThe nights may be cold but the days are warm and this week I have been busy catching up with my sowing schedule as well as transplanting. The colds nights have meant my cloches stay up. In the polytunnels early spud Rocket is in flower and asking to be harvested. I have transplanted a block of 20 sweet corn Early Extra Sweet and a row of squash grown from home-saved seed called Table Queen.
Read moreThe last couple of weeks have been dry, sunny and cold at night. Life in the greenhouses and polytunnels has been growing like the clappers. Outside things are moving a…
Read moreMonday, 9 March 2009 You win some and you lose some in the gardening game and this year has been no exception. As an avid seed collector and seed saver…
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 The morning was cool, but the rising sun, revealing a solitary kingfisher gazing into the muddy waters of Chiang Rai’s Mae Kok river, promised light and…
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