Time is against me. I have to pack all of July’s gardening chores into two weeks. And there is a surprising amount to do when you aren’t ambling your way through the month, dodging raindrops. When you are up against…
Read MoreDue to the serious lack of gardening because of the ‘incident’ and weather that couldn’t make up its mind from one moment to the next, my gardening regime has taken a dent in productivity. It was the most frustrating week, so…
Read MoreI have tried to take my crop rotation seriously, but it is so confusing! I think I have ironed it out and use signs that I rotate to the next bed each year. A simple solution that means I don’t…
Read MoreI’ve been a little busy lately and it is has kept me from my dirty little love – the garden. I kind of feel I need to say “hello my name is Sarah the Gardener and I haven’t gardened in…
Read MoreIt is so easy to see life passing by when the seasons anxiously waited for, although some with greater excitement than others. And so we wake up today, firmly in the grasp of winter. Although having said that it isn’t…
Read MoreEarly last spring I picked up some raw shelled peanuts from the baking section. I’d done it before so I was kind of excited. I wasn’t going to bake with them, I was going to grow them. I love growing…
Read MoreI have been kidding myself with the misguided theory that so long as there are tomatoes in the garden then there is still a claim to summer. But the tomatoes have been a little manky of late, so I pulled…
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