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Category Archives: gardening
Snowy plants
Four or five inches of snow on my raised beds earlier this week, but looks like the beans, peas, & garlic at least are trucking along under there. I got my tiny garden apprentice to help me take a look … Continue reading
New year, new growth
I don’t really do resolutions per se (this post by Meg Barker is excellent on the matter). But if you looked out, on a bright, sunny New Year morning, at your patio (or balcony, or windowbox…) and thought about growing … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, growing things, permaculture in pots
Tagged fruit, microgreens, planning, winter
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Tidying up the garden for the winter
At the weekend I hoicked out the tomatoes (getting a fair crop of green tomatoes in the process), courgettes, gone-to-seed lettuce, and a bundle of unexpected carrots, to clear some space before winter. I also dug over the compost and … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, growing things
Tagged broad beans, compost, gardening, growing things, lettuce, peas
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River of Flowers
I came across River of Flowers recently: a project aiming to plant and encourage urban wildflower meadows to help the flow of pollinators across London. (It’s now spread to elsewhere in the world.) As someone who’s trying to create her … Continue reading
Self-fertile apple trees for small gardens
I’m keen to have a fruit tree in our garden, and my mind turned to what’s really the default UK fruit tree: the apple. The thing with apple trees, though (and in fact many fruit trees), is that if you … Continue reading
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Tagged apple trees, apples, fruit, garden, plants
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Permaculture principles: working with what’s there
I’ve been thinking recently about the design of a potential new permaculture garden project. It suddenly occurred to me that one of the underlying principles of permaculture, awareness of the limits and resources of your site and what you have … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, herbs, permaculture, planning
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How to deal with ants: pt 2
I posted before about eco-friendly ways to deal with ants in the garden. Today I dug up the small box of potatoes I was growing (harvest small but hopefully tasty!), to discover an ants’ nest, or at least a lot … Continue reading
Posted in ants, balcony, gardening, pests
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