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Tag Archives: pests and diseases

Rotating crops: don’t bother

January 24, 2023

I am not someone who readily does as they’re told. Ask my mum. You know those annoying children for whom …

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Garlic, beans and onions

January 8, 2023

Sowing now: Garlic It is still hideously soggy outside and far too cold to sow just yet: but in between …

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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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October garden: Greenhouses and fruit garden

October 23, 2013

The slow dying of the greenhouses is the swansong of my year. They’re the last to go: long after the …

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Garden words: The January Review

January 2, 2012

Wicked Bugs Amy Stewart There are some books that just make you go ‘Well. I never knew that.’ And then …

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Not the colorado beetle

June 27, 2011

My poor new potatoes are suffering a nasty attack of early blight. Not quite as nasty as late blight, as …

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Bzzzzzzz

August 16, 2010

Look what we found on our kitchen wall the other day. Apologies for the quality of the picture, but if …

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Plant of the month: August

August 10, 2010

Lilium ‘Original Love’ At the risk of sounding a little, well, unfeminine…… Phwoooooaarrr. We’ve been watching this one unfurl for …

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Mystery blobs

August 4, 2010

Any idea what this is? Found all over some small silver birch trees, while we were rambling about the countryside …

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Oy! Gerroff me geraniums!

January 12, 2010

Would you just look at this? This has been going on for a month now, and at first I put …

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