September 2008

One Year On

September 13, 2008
One Year On

One year on there is a real sense of the growing season ebbing away, quite a different feel to last September when everything was just starting. The weather was quite different too, scorching last year vs sodden this year.  There are a few similarities, I’m back to digging and I’m planting strawberries again, I’ve even [...]

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Month in Pictures – August 08

September 11, 2008
Month in Pictures - August 08

  Despite the grotty wet weather, August still flourished and I spent almost all of my gardening time harvesting crops. Can’t complain about that but it does mean I failed to sow any overwintering crops, hopefully September sown spring cabbages will still be productive. Blight inevitably struck towards the middle of the month so I [...]

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Spikey Pear Leaf Growth

September 8, 2008
Spikey Pear Leaf Growth

I have slipped a long way back and can feel the pressure of a blogging backlog so I best bite the bullet and post these photos.  A while ago I noticed reddish stains appearing on the tops of my pear leaves or at least one reddish stain on one pear leaf. I humphed and pfftted [...]

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