SARAH THE GARDENER

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Thinking about cooler days.

Not wanting wish away my summer but I really need to think about winter.  The summer garden is in full swing and doing its thing.  The tomato inundation has begun and it is such a pleasure to enjoy fresh at…

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The wonder and surprize at first time gardening

I think it is safe to say I know what I’m doing in the veggie garden, well most of the time.  I have discovered over the course of time how different crops respond to the different seasons.  I’ve had summers…

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Some ideas on Pinterest may seem like a good idea at the time…

Sowing the seeds of love, we’re off to a seedy start, I’ve sowed the seeds to a new season…  I could go on, the clichés are endless!  Entering into August puts us one month closer to spring and the weather…

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Well that’s it – the last seeds have been sown.

…well maybe I’ll throw in a couple more rainbow beets as not all the colours have come out, but aside from that everything in the greenhouse is all there is going to be this season.  Oh except for the beans…

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Gardening without blogging doesn’t feel right!

It feels like something has been missing as I set about getting my garden spring ready.    Each time I do something the words formulate in my head and I instantly reach for my camera.  And then I’m like – “oh…

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The ups and downs of gardening.

I was VERY calm when I heard the crash.  I was even calm when I saw the mess.   I surprised myself as to how calm I was when I realised it was my tiny pepper seedlings that were no longer…

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Sowing the seeds of love

I love sowing seeds!  I now have my second round of seeds snuggly planted in warm, damp, seed raising mix.  There were loads more than in the first round but there are still loads to come. I look at the…

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Gardening can take on many forms.

And for me there was no dirty hands plunged into a weedy soil, and I didn’t even get to pick up a screwdriver to build a greenhouse.  There were things from the garden in our dinner as per the rule: …

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There are seeds in the soil!

It is official, the season has begun.  Woo Hooo, Hooray, YaY and all those other celebratory words that are just too difficult to spell! I squeezed some time into my busy schedule that if I waited for an opening would…

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Not long now.

Very soon – like in days – I’ll be sowing my first seeds of the season and I’m really excited.  However I have been meaning to test the viability of some of the seeds I sorted out recently, but the…

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