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We’re calling it ‘Strawberry Saturday’
So the sun is out – hot and 26 degrees. Felt hotter in the full sun working hard pulling weeds! Arrived in the morning after a nice breakfast on a terrace in south Hampstead, and once we finally wound our … Continue reading
Late Summer – Spectacular Flowers
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Cold slow spring at the allotment
It’s been a cold slow spring. Windy. Wet. Fairly yucky all told. The plot grows on, but in a slow steady kind of way. This time last year we were gorging on strawberries. This year they’re forming more slowly and … Continue reading
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celebrating sunflowers & stuff to do with willow boughs
Our sunflowers have finally come into bloom. Yippee! Despite the slugs and snails devastating many of my early sunflower seedlings, a few managed to brave it out and are finally in full bloom. We’ve got sunflowers sprinkled just about everywhere … Continue reading
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feeling plummy
It’s plum harvesting season on the plots. We don’t have a tree on our plot, but many others do. Earlier this summer we harvested greengage plums from the bottom plot we’ve been keeping an eye on for the nice couple … Continue reading
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high hopes for Echium
Earlier this summer.. or was it spring..? Probably late May, the big dude did a wander through the plots to the end – looking for foxes and butterflies and what-not – and spied an end plot that had absolutely magnificent … Continue reading
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July’s over…
July ended with a mini-heatwave. We arrived at the start of this week and simply had to photograph the temperature – partly to prove to ourselves it really was over 36º – and this from the thermometer installed on the … Continue reading
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blooms out back
The back patch gardens are left to take care of themselves with very little attention given, now that we’re constantly heading to the allotment. But that’s not a problem really, as most of the back patch planting is of perennials … Continue reading
beautiful, beguiling butterflies
At the plot we’re waiting for things to grow… It’s all looking lush and bountiful. Alas there have been disappointments and failures too. Due to the cool conditions this summer, things are taking a little time to get going. … Continue reading
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plot developments elsewhere…
Our work at M’s plot has really paid off – she’s back at it, so as the big guy says, ‘Mission accomplished.’ She came up with us after working with the woods volunteers, and returned on her own to go … Continue reading
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Philosophising... 