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Seed plans
Well, what I really want to know is, what are you doing about seeds this year? My favourite little Welsh seed company has been overwhelmed by orders, and due to social distancing in the seed packing sheds, can’t take any … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, chitting, COVID-19, dad advice, dahlias, flowers, garden planning, gardening, grow your own, potatoes, sarah raven, saving seed, seed orders, seed planning, seed potatoes, seeds, vegetables
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Queen Elsa and the Three Kings
Little Owl and I spent a morning on the allotment planting out strawberry runners on a bare patch and putting the dahlias to bed. None of the old chaps dig their dahlias up for the winter so we’ve followed their … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged allotment, angle, broad beans, carol concert, christmas, Christmas Fayre, Christmas party, COVID-19, dahlias, manure, Mums, nativity, winter, zoom
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Allotment Update
Okay, I think we’re all in need of an allotment update aren’t we?! Swiss Chard – middling. Growing but it’s getting a lot of attention from the pigeons. Unwanted attention from my point of view. Asparagus – good this year … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, asparagus, beetroot, blackberries, broad beans, carrots, cornflowers, dahlias, fruit, gardening, grow your own, growing, marigolds, Monty Don, nasturtiums, new potatoes, perpetual onions, pigeons, pumpkins, rudbeckia, salad, slugs, strawberries, summer, summer holidays, sweet williams, sweetpeas, swiss chard, tomatoes, update, vegetables, Wales
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Cloudburst
Yesterday evening, from the back door, I watched a cloudburst of summer rain fall. The door was wide open to let the steam out of the kitchen. Big Dreamer had a vat of bubbling jam on the hob. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, august, blackberries, choir, cut flowers, dahlias, flowers, fruit, grow your own, Hannah Foley, jam, name lables, new term, plums, rudbeckia, school uniform, summer, summer rain, sweet peas
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Scrapes
There was a time, with small children, where I felt as though I was in continual scrapes. Some of them were so ridiculous and laughable that I half expected a candid camera crew to jump out. I’ve written about a … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged a38, accident, allotment, Brownies, candid camera, carrots, dahlias, devon, Devon bank, directions, google maps, hedgerow, lanes, lost, loudspeaker, national express coach, parenting, parenting fail, passing place, phone, sat nav, splatford split, stuck, summer, summer holidays, swimming lesson, wrong direction
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