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Garlic, Bugs and Curses Galore

June 19, 2011
Garlic, Bugs and Curses Galore

What’s happening with the weather gods? The rain has come too late for a bounteous crop of spuds but is perfectly timed to ruin my garlic bulbs that are desperately in need of a good sun basking. I had a tricky decision to make this weekend. The ground was sodden and with no respite promised, [...]

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Bride of Frankenstein

May 2, 2011
Bride of Frankenstein

I did my best to get in the sartorial spirit of the weekend but my enviromesh veil was hardly an Alexander McQueen. I’m all for Royal Weddings, I get to weep with a good proportion of the nation and then as a bonus I get an extra day to play around on the plot. After [...]

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M1 Gardener

May 19, 2010
M1 Gardener

We were on the plot by 10:30 ready for a full days labour. I collected one of the communal petrol lawn mowers on the way in and then wasted 30 mins wrenching every muscle in my shoulder trying to get it started. I managed to get it going long enough to shave a wonky line [...]

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Out With The Old

February 23, 2010
Out With The Old

We’ve dabbled a little bit on the old plot at North Sheen, pulling parsnips and leeks but have finally decided the time has come to hand it over to the next budding gardener on the list. I went over to see Sam to hand in my notice and nearly came away blubbing. It felt very [...]

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Parental Visitation

November 23, 2009
Parental Visitation

The weekend was scheduled for the installation of the guttering and water butt, a task I’d handed over to Lynn but not before I had passed on the benefit of my huge and heroically unsuccessful experiences. I’ve been spouting tales of woe for the last week, predicting DIY disasters of monumental proportions and just to [...]

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A Stormy Kind of Calm

November 16, 2009
A Stormy Kind of Calm

A post storm reccy revealed that the wind had completely denuded the shed of its patchy roofing felt. With only 15 mins allocated for the plot visit there was never going to be time enough for a full repair job. A shed related edginess cast it’s shadow over our corner of the site as a [...]

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Shed to Sedan Chair Makeover

November 1, 2009
Shed to Sedan Chair Makeover

Lynn’s words rang clear in my ears as she dropped me and her Dad off at the plot to get a head start with the shed: “Don’t let him turn it into a ridiculous Sedan Chair!” When we first signed up for the plot, the good ladies of the committee informed us that we wouldn’t [...]

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Secret Stash

October 21, 2009
Secret Stash

We decided to show mercy to our remaining forks by building raised beds in the concrete zone and filling them with the soft crumbly mound of compost piled high in the Clampett’s yard section of the plot. Lynn spent the best part of two days trying to clear this area of unmentionable cruddiness. Hundreds of [...]

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