March 2008

Month in Pictures – March

March 30, 2008
Month in Pictures - March

Progress report for March. March has been a wash out weather wise and we even managed a bit of snow. A little creative jiggery pokery with my annual leave arrangements has enabled me to make the most of the very occasional dry spell to get on the plot and the results have been satisfying: All [...]

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Murder Most Horrid

March 30, 2008
Murder Most Horrid

Today it was time to face facts. The local frog population have obviously snubbed my pond and the slugs that I have been saving as amphibian delicacies have been having a whale of a time in my compost bin, procreating merrily and sniggering behind my back. Something clearly needs to be done if I ever [...]

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Stolen Time

March 27, 2008
Stolen Time

The weekend forecast is pretty dismal again so when I woke this morning to glorious sunshine I thought it was too good to waste and quickly swapped my annual leave arrangements. By 9am I was out on the riverbank, squeezing in another neglected pastime by running to the plot. Typically, when I arrived the sunshine [...]

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Fireside Gardening

March 27, 2008
Fireside Gardening

With the recent spate of inclement weather the green fingered addict has to look elsewhere for a horticultural fix. Here are a few of the ideas I came up with: While I was forced out of the garden this Easter, thoughts naturally turned to DIY and the flat ended up with a spring clean, a [...]

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Frost Fear Sparks Insanity

March 21, 2008
Frost Fear Sparks Insanity

The trouble with early Easter breaks is the tendency of the British weather to thwart any and all gardening plans. You wouldn’t believe how much work I had scheduled for this extended weekend, I was going to turn my plot into a prize winning specimen based on this weekends labour alone. Instead I’ve been forced [...]

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Beauty with Decay

March 12, 2008
Beauty with Decay

I love these anenomes. They are such gaudy, brash, little prima madonnas but they hold their tacky beauty to the bitter end. Even when the petals drop, I feel tempted to leave the dried out remains on the table top. Unfortunately the pictured flowers came from M&S and not my plot. I’ve scattered the anenome [...]

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Sunglasses Required

March 6, 2008
Sunglasses Required

I went to Shakti’s house yesterday to see how the seedlings were, I thought they’d be drying out and need a little freshening up, but how wrong could I be? She has taken this nurturing responsibility very seriously. I found her sitting in the brightest house in the neighbourhood, trying to watch the telly in [...]

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Broad Bees

March 1, 2008
Broad Bees

A virus of some sort is doing the rounds of my body at the moment so I’m not fit for much, but it’s hard to let the weekend go by without a trip to the lotty. It’s been so windy recently that I needed to see how the uncovered broad beans were doing and water [...]

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