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Margaret's Patch: December 2016
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Saturday, 31 December 2016. Looking back on the allotment 2016. This time last year we were busy clearing our daughter Helen's allotment ready for the new tenants to take it on and I remembered the shock of finding a dead chicken in the manure bin! That had come from the plot behind- poor chicken, we don't know how it got there. Now we just have the one plot to look after it has been so much easier. Read about plot 10b here. Most of the fruit has done well, we are still eating the apples which are stored...
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Margaret's Patch: August 2016
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Sunday, 21 August 2016. A garden for wildlife. We do quite a lot of garden visiting during the summer, some of them large gardens, others quite small by comparison. I like to visit other peoples' gardens to get ideas for garden design, planting schemes, spotting how well plants grow in different conditions. A few weeks ago Helen and I visited an NGS. Here were fruit bushes and a few salad and vegetable beds amongst the borders which contained many perennial plants and shrubs. This was a garden for wi...
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Margaret's Patch: June 2016
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Friday, 17 June 2016. Rebuilding the bug hotel. The first bug hotel we built on the allotment was a bit thrown together. It was done as an activity for the grandchildren when we made the woodland den. A couple of years ago. It was quite untidy, but wildlife like untidy places. However being used as a step by an intruder to climb over the fence from the next door plot hadn't helped with its stability. Foxgloves growing under the sycamore tree. I spent a very pleasant afternoon putting it all together and ...
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Margaret's Patch: January 2017
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Monday, 30 January 2017. Through the garden gate in January. There's not a lot you can do in the garden in January and being such a long, dull, dark and dreary month, if you like to be out gardening it can be quite depressing. I like to plant up pots of bulbs as well as having them in the garden borders. So I went off to the garden centre recently and bought little pots of snowdrops and crocus to plant up. They will go on the garden table or potting benches. On Sarah's blog Down by the Sea. When I arrive...
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Margaret's Patch: July 2016
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016. At last the leeks are planted. One of my favourite winter vegetables is leeks and I like to grow as many as I can. We've usually had a good lot of leeks to harvest down at the allotment, but last year they didn't do at all well. So I'm determined to do better this year. I łove planting leeks, it's so different from planting other vegetables. Make a planting hole with a dibber, pop the leek plant in then fill the hole up with water. Easy but back breaking! Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
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Good to be back up there… | The Avid Gardener
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Down on the Allotment and other gardening goodness. Laquo; Sunning it up in Cancun. 3 years since last update! Good to be back up there…. On July 1, 2012. I went back up again on Sunday as I had heard that we’re to be entered into the county bloom competition as newcomers for our allotment, so a lot of the time was spent pulling any additonal weeds and trying to get the old guttering and irrigation installed on / in the greenhouse. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Down on the Allotment.
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Mama's Lottie: May 2010
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Monday, 17 May 2010. Well I dug the pea trenches and filled with scrap salads and peelings. A fellow allotmenteer offered me this advice.I'm up for trying whatever I'm advised! My lettuces in the tunnel are popping up nicely. And so is My rocket. This little fella is our new friend. He pops up everytime we get to the lottie and follows us about. Might have to name him if he keeps doing it! All in all its looking pretty bare as Im behind everyone else. Hopefully not for too Long. Posted by Mama Syder.
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Who am I today?: I am.....supporting Slovenia
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Who am I today? The Ravings, musings, ramblings and mumblings of a middle-aged failure with a richer fantasy life than a real one. Well, what did you think I looked like? It was a late night! Friday, 18 June 2010. Lets face it England suck! Anyhoo, after a mammoth macaron. I got smooth domes.without feet. I got feet.with cracked domes. And I got some, just right. Raspberry and milk chocolate ganache. Peach and white chocolate ganache. Coffee and dark chocolate ganache. Like eating non-perfect ones! Subsc...
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Who am I today?: July 2010
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Who am I today? The Ravings, musings, ramblings and mumblings of a middle-aged failure with a richer fantasy life than a real one. Well, what did you think I looked like? It was a late night! Monday, 5 July 2010. Feeling a bit better. Having had my little rant earlier, I betook myself off to the kitchen for some therapy. Several pounds of strawberries rapidly became 1 litre of strawberry ripple ice cream and three large jars of strawberry jam. Closely followed by these;. Pretty darned perfect aren't they?
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Who am I today?: August 2010
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Who am I today? The Ravings, musings, ramblings and mumblings of a middle-aged failure with a richer fantasy life than a real one. Well, what did you think I looked like? It was a late night! Monday, 16 August 2010. I Am All Jammed Out! Its been a while since the last post, but its been soo busy round here. Jam wise we have 'put up'. Apple and Mint Jelly. Redcurrant and port Jelly. Apple and Rosemary Jelly. Connor wants to make carrot jam, so we may give that a try. At the moment I am thoroughly enjoying...