SARAH THE GARDENER
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Hunting and Gathering Trees
Finally, the weather turned to ‘not rainy’ and my schedule cleared up and I could go tree shopping. Only I’ve left it a little late. I knew I had but didn’t realise just how late as all the good stuff…
Read MoreGetting Fruity
I have a problem. I want it all and I want it now. But there is an ancient Chinese proverb to support me in my pressing desires. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next…
Read MoreEverything is just peachy
Well it will be soon. I’ve been down to the far end to check out the orchard. Things are looking great for an abundantly fruity summer. Not long now. If I’ve planted things right, we should have fresh fruit…
Read MoreFruitfulness in spite of it all
My poor orchard has been left to its own devices yet again. I have seemed to have developed a do or die attitude with the trees down the end, in the ultimate low maintenance gardening style. However orchards aren’t meant…
Read MoreI’ve gone as far as I can go!
I have run out of glass and need to order more. I have to say these greenhouses are really quite simple and logical to put together. I’m really impressed. I was a bit scared putting the glass on the roof,…
Read MoreApparently working in the rain is not what you should do….
… According to Hubby the Un-Gardener. There I was doing my thing completely oblivious to what was going on around me. And he comes along and tells me I should stop and go inside because it was pouring with rain. …
Read MoreSnippety snip, chippety chop
With a brief instruction from some lovely lady on a You Tube video, I felt confident enough to give all the lavender a brutal haircut. I’m the kind of person that really needs to see something done so I can…
Read MoreYou’ll have to take my word for it.
It was the most amazing day, blue skies that went forever, not a puff of wind and was even a little warm when you weren’t in the shade. But I had to do my inside book keeping thingy. The kids…
Read MoreIt’s raining again.
It’s quite funny because I seem to go on about the rain a lot and so anyone would be led to believe it is a very soggy autumn. But alas this is not the case. Since the seasons changed we…
Read MoreSometimes I ask myself why I bother gardening…. Alternative title: A joyful return from holiday.
Having a holiday in the middle of the growing season is possibly the craziest thing that happens to gardener. But we all do it. – Well most of us. We set up irrigation systems to make things easy for the…
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