Gardening

You would think having a lovely garden to sit in, you would find me regularly resting there. You would think. However, the one curse of being a gardener, even one with ME, is that after five minutes of sitting there ...

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Since we’ve lived here, we’ve had goats for around 7 years. A solid 6 year stint with Gerty and Jilly – two toggenburgs (you can read about them here) and then a year of another batch of goats (with a goat share arrangement) which came and went a bit while we tried to find the […]

All being well (and if the weather has been kind), your garden or allotment will be yielding an abundance of fresh and wholesome vegetable and soft fruit crops around about now. ;

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Whenever someone asks me, what is my favourite plant, I stumble. As an admitted plant addict, there are so many I love, that I find it hard to choose. Early in the year come snowdrops, the harbingers of Spring. I ...

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In Praise of Elderflowers Around the corner from our house the elder bushes are coming into full flower – a sure sign that summer is finally arriving. ;

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