SARAH THE GARDENER
Real Gardening in my Real Garden
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Tomatoes, salad & new things
The summer weather seems to have been and gone. A few nice days with blazing temperatures and then boof… back to the wet and miserable. This doesn’t bode well. Unless of course it was the soggy spring putting the boot…
Read MoreWhat’s Bean Happening?
Finally, after a difficult week the sun burst forth and I could go out into the garden and truly lose myself in it. After a miserable spring where more time was spent nipping out to the garden to do a…
Read MorePretty as a picture
Sometimes when you are working so hard on something, that all you can see is what is ahead of you, all you still have to do. The wood becomes lost in the trees. So you put your head down and…
Read MoreThe great garden reveal?
Each year I approach spring with great expectancy. I want to be spring ready. That is to have all the beds weeded, dug over, lovingly enriched and left to rest for a few weeks so the soil, and the added…
Read MoreThe things you do for spuds
After making disparaging comments about how the seed potatoes at the garden centre were available far to early for growing in my neck of the woods, I strangely found myself at the checkout clutching a bag of Swift spuds. It…
Read MoreLate for Christmas
I am the kind of person that leaves Christmas – not exactly until the last moment, but I sail close to the wind. My preparations are reactive, not proactive as every year it takes me by surprise. Except when in…
Read MorePlan Bee
I’m having another look at my flower garden. Last year I did manage to get a well-managed cutting garden. To be honest I mean ‘well-managed’ quite loosely. I kept the weeds down, feed and watered regularly and even did a…
Read MoreI declare this spring officially open
Wow, we are now into the growing season. It was a busy first day, but I managed to find some time to sow my tomato seeds. It is hard to believe in less than two months I’ll be planting them…
Read MoreIt’s cold outside
Oh my goodness, winter has finally stood up and said loudly and proudly: I am here! Last week we had so much rain it broke records for the most rain in an hour for the month of June. The thing…
Read MoreSweet Digging
It was a grey gloomy old winter day and like easing yourself into a swimming pool, once I got into the garden it wasn’t actually that bad. I hadn’t gone as far as to wear a beanie, but I hadn’t…
Read MoreWHO AM I?
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