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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Pick of the month: Crabapples

October 22, 2016

There are some garden plants which can’t make up their mind where they belong. Kitchen garden? Or flower borders? The …

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Wordless Wednesday: Gourds

October 19, 2016

As seen in the wonderful kitchen garden at Barrington Court, Somerset

Bindweed two ways

October 16, 2016

My life is entangled with bindweed roots. They writhe through my dreams and wind around my fingers; every fork full …

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How to make a compost bin #2

October 13, 2016

(You can find part 1 here) So – now you’ve got the upright bits: what’s next? Well, time to bolt …

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How to make a compost bin #1

October 10, 2016

The above set-up is all you will ever need by way of composting. Three bins is the nirvana of perfect …

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Putting Biochar through its paces

October 7, 2016

I’m mostly a peat-free gardener: life’s too short and the world too precious to ruin a peat bog for beans …

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This month in the garden…

October 4, 2016

It’s about this time of year I start to resist writing anything about seasons, mists or mellow fruitfulness for fear …

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Splitting the difference

October 1, 2016

Bother. My tomatoes have gone and split on me. This, of course, is my own silly fault. Tomatoes split for …

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