garden
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Shed Improvements
Revamping the outside of the old lean-to shed was one of the jobs that I first tackled not long after moving in. By March I had taken the dark brown exterior of Alan’s Shed to the bright pink of Mimi’s Shed, which is really a shed for us all, but I spend time in there,…
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Slate Plant Labels
I made a set of slate plant labels to finish the set up of the new herb bed in the garden and to replace the plastic labels that some of them started out with. As spring arrives and we start to spend some more time in the garden I want to bring our recent additions…
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Growing Saffron
At then beginning of October last year I was browsing online, looking for something to plant and grow in those days when the summer harvests were coming to an end and I wasn’t yet quite ready to embrace the shortening days. Quite by chance I found some discounted saffron crocus bulbs online, and the impulsive…
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Garden Planning 2023
Late January feels bitterly cold, with snow still on the ground and new layers of frost that build upon each other with no relief from a thaw. It’s a time when I want to be out in the garden more as a new year is calling, but the cold this year is a painful one…
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A Garden Of Our Own
It is approaching the two year mark of when we got the keys to our own house, and with the house the thing that made us choose this as our home: the garden. Background: The Flat Until February 2021 we had been living for ten years in a rented flat. I don’t know if we…
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New Year, New Garden Calendar (printable)
For the past year or so I have been looking for a very specific type of calendar for my garden, but I have come to believe that it doesn’t actually exist, so I have made one for myself and have linked to it at the bottom of this post in case anyone else might find…