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Showing posts with label Garden/Grounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden/Grounds. Show all posts
Friday, 14 September 2018

Gardening in a heatwave

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I recently wrote a post explaining what all the effects of Climate Change will be and included this point about agriculture: "Drou...
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Sunday, 11 March 2018

Skills the world needs us to know

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I wrote in a recent blog that when we lose so many of the skills our predecessors knew then we place our lives in the hands of others ... ...
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Monday, 20 March 2017

Weekly Green Tips #47 - Greening Your Lawn

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Week 47 - How to have a Green Lawn Having a lawn is much greener (literally and environmentally) than a hard-surfaced garden but is...
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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens, Tramore, Waterford

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On our recent trip to Ireland I was keen to visit a few gardens.  As we were there in October many were closed for the winter but a few wer...
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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Bees in the Polytunnel - Part 1

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I know with Halloween approaching "Bats in the Belfry" might be a more topical post title but to be honest, I don't have a be...
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Thursday, 22 September 2016

As Summer melts into Autumn

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As summer slowly melts into autumn, the spiders have once again been busy creating their intricate webs.  Nature's morning breath shows...
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Thursday, 1 September 2016

Hints of Autumn

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It is September 1st and after a few weeks of hot dry weather everywhere is looking rather parched ... and there are definite signs of autum...
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Thursday, 25 August 2016

Colour in my veg garden

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I have gardened since I was a child when I discovered a box of old seeds in my grandfather's potting shed and since then it is growing ...
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Thursday, 18 August 2016

August Garden Round-Up

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I am sure many gardeners will nod away in agreement when I say that 2016 has been a difficult gardening year.  For us, in Normandy, a mild ...
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Friday, 15 July 2016

Combating Potato Blight

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There is no denying the Spring of 2016 has been both cool and wet which has meant I have been really late getting things going in the garde...
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Friday, 17 June 2016

Weekly Green Tips - 7 Best bee attracting plants

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Week 13 - 7 Best bee attracting plants We need bees.  It is not just honey that bees give us.  As I mentioned in my Weekly Green Tips las...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

A Garden Rethink

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As anyone who has read this blog probably realises, I love gardening and in particular growing my own veg.  It was one of our aims, when we...
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Thursday, 17 March 2016

My Tomato Varieties

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I love growing tomatoes.  I love growing different varieties of tomatoes.  Which is why I appear to have ended up with 14 packets of toma...
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Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Sowing parsnip seeds in loo roll inner tubes

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My packets of parsnip seeds say they can be sown from February. My packets of parsnip seeds have obviously NOT looked at the weather we h...
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Tuesday, 16 February 2016

11 Reasons to Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg

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From time to time I get asked the question "Why do you bother to grow veg when you can buy all you want so cheaply at the supermarket...
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Thursday, 21 January 2016

Polytunnel Progress

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Since writing about coming out of hibernation last week I could quite easily have headed back to bed this last week and not surfaced.  The ...
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Thursday, 14 January 2016

Coming out of hibernation

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I have never really been one to succeed with New Year Resolutions because I believe that the dark month of January is not a good time to ac...
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