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Growing

These are all the posts in the “growing” category.

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You might find a pretty much brand new collapsible garden bin. That’s what I found on my walk with Lily-dog today. When I first saw it a little way up the hill from the path, I thought it was one of ours but when I got closer, I saw it was bigger and frankly better [...]

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I took these photos yesterday but between one thing (Strowger ;)) and another (getting obsessed about doing something pointless & time-consuming that wasn’t on my to-do list), I didn’t get around to posting them. However, thankfully it looks just the same out there today – just less sunny and more icy – so I can [...]

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A few weeks ago, I was sent a couple of gardening books by Timber Press to review here and on Recycle This. This is the first one – Garden Eco-Chic by Matthew Levesque. I’ve reviewed it in full on Recycle This but in brief/tl;dr – The book does look nice: it includes lots of great [...]

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Yesterday I was thinking all autumnal thoughts but for some reason, I’m in winter mode again today – possibly because I’m off to the yarn shop with a winter woolly in mind and when I come back, I need to start work on that winter to-do list… The garden is my biggest worry in that [...]

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(Inspired by book-aholic buying behaviour this month, I’ve decided to have a bit of a book-themed week both here and on my recycling site, Recycle This.) Despite living on the internet & using it/blogs for most of my day-to-day info, I’ve got quite a few simple living related books and as you might expect, some [...]

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After writing the last post about all the edible stuff still in the garden, I let the chickens out for a play in the garden in the sunshine. I now no longer have any swiss chard. I better get some bloomin’ great eggs tomorrow.

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