SARAH THE GARDENER
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Someone stuck a festive period in the middle of my growing season.
I spend all winter dreaming of my perfect garden. I put things in place to improve on last year. Mistakes were learnt from. I carefully selected seeds and dug sodden, cold dirt and carefully removed all trace of weed so…
Read MoreThis is the last day of the worst month of spring.
I should really remember it every year as a hard month, but my enthusiasm and sheer determination tends to make me forget that I have the same struggle every year. September – the middle spring month is just yucky. It…
Read MoreRaspberries – Done!
Gosh – it is amazing how good you feel when you get a hard job done, and you have been putting it off for ages and finally you do a proper job and end up body sore, but when you…
Read MoreSo close…
My arms and hands are so sore I can barely raise my fingers to type out the letters. I spent a good three hours weeding the raspberries. I made great progress and nearly made it all the way to the…
Read MoreThings to do in the garden
I didn’t do anything in the garden for two main reasons. Number one – The temperature dropped quite dramatically. We have been used to a quite balmy 15°C average so far through most of the winter and when the sun…
Read MoreLooking towards the future while remembering the past.
Today has been a huge day in the garden in more ways than one. I put in some hard yakka, but there was also an emotional edge to my time with my hands in the soil. Last year I asked…
Read MoreThe new summer is treating us well – NOT!
The first day held a lot of promise, the sun was shining, there was a light breeze, but the temperatures were still a little cool, and instead of hiding in the shade from the heat of the sun, everyone wanted…
Read MoreI’ve bean procrastinating!
I am almost there. There is only one bed left to sow. Everything else is planted and sown. All the beds are full and should be displaying a “No Vacancy” sign. Although most beds don’t look full as the seedlings…
Read MoreA weed by any other name
The sun shined almost all day today. Once I was forced to shelter in the greenhouse and the other time the drops were so fat I thought that is was probably set in for the day so I came inside,…
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