I 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…
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It’s the End of August Already
Dear 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….
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Early Summer Madness
Already 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…
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May Madness
Despite 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…
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Very Busy Sowing and Planting
The 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.
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Friday April 16 2010
The 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…
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Notes from a seed collector, Episode two.
Monday, 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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SEED HUNTING ALONG THE MEKONG
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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It’s all going like the clappers
Monday, 28 April 2008 Late April, what a time of year for the obsessive veggie grower! With the ground getting warmer and the days ever longer everything is just growing like the clappers. My beetroot and artichoke…
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A busy time to sow
Sunday, 13 April 2008 Although the weather has been cool, especially at night, with a string of frost, my early spuds are doing well under their cloche. Today, with the…
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