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Beware of what lies beneath!

Sunday 4 February 2018 by admin·0 Comments
ladybird sheltering in dead leaf

With many of our gardens showing signs of spring, lots of us will be keen to get outside and begin clearing our borders and pruning back those wayward shrubs.Continue reading

Strawberries in October

Friday 13 October 2017 by admin·0 Comments

Well it’s the 13th October and I have eaten several of our home-grown strawberries today!Continue reading

Sweetcorn Rescue

Monday 26 June 2017 by admin·0 Comments
sweetcorn

After carefully nurturing the sweetcorn in pots, until I had cleared the first bed of potatoes, I finally got to plant out the sweetcorn this weekend.

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First Strawberry of the Season

Tuesday 30 May 2017 by admin·0 Comments
ripe strawberry

Always look forward to the first strawberries of the season and today I picked this beauty!

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Heathers

Thursday 20 October 2016 by admin·0 Comments

Every year I am bewildered when I see garden centres and supermarkets selling ‘painted’ heathers in a variety of garish colours.

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Dorset Apple Cake

Saturday 10 September 2016 by admin·0 Comments

Dorset Apple Cake (sometimes known as Somerset Apple Cake) is delicious served warm. Although this recipe calls for cooking apples, but I find it a great way to use up any type of windfall apples.Continue reading

Apple Dessert Cake

Sunday 4 September 2016 by admin·0 Comments
apple dessert cake with flaked almonds

This is a delicious Mary Berry recipe, which I recently discovered. You can make with any type of apples, including windfalls.

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Bee Hotel

Sunday 3 July 2016 by admin·0 Comments
bee taking leaf into recessed screw hole in hosepipe reel

Who needs to buy a bee hotel? This leafcutter bee was busy making a nest inside a recessed screw hole in my hosepipe reel.

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First Crop of New Potatoes This Year

Monday 30 May 2016 by admin·0 Comments

I dug up a root of the Sharpes Express potatoes I had previously planted 12 weeks ago and was very disappointed with the results, as they were so tiny.

The first root

The potatoes from the first root were very small

I guess this is down to the colder-than-normal-weather we have had this Spring.

However, I did cook them and they tasted delicious.

Hopefully another week or two and they should be a reasonable size.

 

Removing Weeds From a Lawn

Saturday 12 March 2016 by admin·0 Comments

It’s still too early to add a general weed and feed to the lawn, you need to wait until April when it is a bit warmer and the grass is actively growing. However, it is a good idea to tackle any weeds with a spot weed killer, or dig them out, before they go to seed and make more work for you later.

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