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May is a magical time in the garden with the ground strewn with golden leaves so beautiful but also manna from the heavens as is the best mulch possible. I rake heaps of it onto tarps and into whee...
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As the Days Grow Cooler Hello there, this month, the air carries the crisp promise of winter, and we have begun lighting fires that will keep us warm until spring returns. The crackling flames are ...
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Summer has well and truly left and as I write this I am now donning a wool jumper! Things have changed quickly over the last few days... The crispness in the air signals change, a shift in the rhyt...
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Such a privilege to have a garden and to be able to spend time in it - even if it is only fifteen minutes or so a day, raking up some leaves to put on the veggies or in the compost, planting some w...
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March in the garden is a bit like coming to the end of a marathon - a great feeling of relief after keeping the garden going over summer …. in March, the slightly cooler shorter days mean many plan...
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February has been a whirlwind for us at Dunblane on the Far South Coast, its been a truly busy one on the farm and with our other businesses, work etc. We had a television show here shooting our ga...
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Trisha’s Meanderings - February
A summer like never before - the garden on steroids and am burning it all onto my retina as know there will be other summers not as lush. Adore colour - the brighter the better - in the garden an...
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Seasons on the Farm - February
This spring we planted 80 tomato plants in the market garden. I was really excited for summer and well, I slightly overdid it. As you can imagine, we have had a steady stream of tomatoes starting ...
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