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Maternal Pride

June 10, 2008
Maternal Pride

I was leaning over the pond this evening, trying to reach the juicy alpine strawberries, when I spotted a big adult frog eyeballing me from the comfort of the pool. I was swelled with pride, as this strange beast had accepted lodgings in my pond. Now my eye was in though, I spotted 3 tiny [...]

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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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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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Month In Pictures – February

March 1, 2008
Month In Pictures - February

Progress report for February. The weather was remarkably mild and I enjoyed a good few sunny weekends on the plot. The peach was planted and tentatively pruned to within an inch of it’s life. Paths and a seed bed were constructed in a fashion. The Hellebore flowered beautifully and provided a lovely welcome to all [...]

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Leaf Feast

January 19, 2008
Leaf Feast

Not a great weekend for allotment pottering but I can enjoy a cup of tea in a nice dry shed even on the worst of days. The ground was too wet to dig which is a bit of nuisance as there is only a smallish patch left to complete. I opted instead to do weed [...]

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Fungal Foray

January 1, 2008
Fungal Foray

For Christmas this year I got a couple of packs of mushroom “seed” or more accurately, packs of wooden dowells impregnated with mushroom mycelium. I went up to Yorkshire for a few days so I split them with my Dad and we had some fun trying to bash the little plugs into some freshly cut [...]

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View on the Inside

December 2, 2007
View on the Inside

Well there was no eviction notice tacked to the front of the shed so I may start to relax now. Mind you it was so windy today that any notice would have blown away, I was surprised the shed hadn’t taken off in fact. Check out the laminate flooring! Despite the horrendous weather (Dad take [...]

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All Quiet on the Allotment Front

December 2, 2007
All Quiet on the Allotment Front

Well it hasn’t been all that quiet it’s just been so stressful recently that I’ve kind of gone into blogging hibernation. I mentioned in my last post that I had been offered a super shed for use on the plot and I’d roped in the help of my mum, dad and brother to help erect [...]

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