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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
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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thinking ahead – special seasonal tipples
The end of summer approaches. I’ll be back to work soon – which surely will be a shock to the system. What? No outdoor time for six hours a day? Oh my! It’s going to be something else this year, … 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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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
and so it goes..
We’ve been down the rabbit hole for the past few weeks. There has been lots of summer rain – sometimes light showers, sometimes sustained, pounding downpours. And so on the enforced wet days when we couldn’t garden anyway, we got … Continue reading
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a glut of garlic
Yesterday we got around to lifting the garlic from their growing bed – the very last area in the allotment that we can cultivate for summer crops. This shot shows the full harvest on-site, with flowering calendula growing on the … Continue reading
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forward thinking: garlic & gooseberries
There are two impending harvests that loom on the horizon: our Germidor soft-necked and Giant Garlic, and also the gooseberries. The garlic bed is sorely needed as a growing space, and we stopped watering that patch a week ago. Even … Continue reading
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ready… steady…. Jam!
It’s ‘On Your Marks!’ season in the gardens, that much is for sure. Everything’s exploding and the growing shed is near enough empty… The sole survivors in there are the seeded Thai basil, now ready to be potted-up-and-out, a tray … Continue reading
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