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Author Archives: Homesown@thedevelopingplot
Catching Up
After filling up the greenhouse, all the windowsills in the house as well as the cold frames in front of it with small plants and emerging seedlings, I went on holiday leaving it all (and the dog) in the care … Continue reading
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Tagged cornflowers, Cosmos, Daffodils, larkspur, pelargoniums, viola Black Bowles
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Blue and Grey Days
It has been an odd Spring as beautiful piercing blue skies one day are replaced by gloomy, drizzly grey the next. Have found it hard to get into a gardening rhythm and the sowing of seeds and preparations for this … Continue reading
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Tagged antirrhinum, Autumn planted cornflowers, Cosmos, Farmers markets, greenhouse, larkspur, pelargonium, seed sowing, sweet peas, Tomatoes
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Early Sowings
The sowing of seeds has started and some have startled me by germinating almost immediately – Cosmos Dazzler and Purity were already showing after two days and now the challenge is to find enough light to stop them getting too … Continue reading
Posted in March, Sweetpeas, Uncategorized
Tagged aubergine, broad beans, chillies, Cosmos, Gardeners Delight, Higgledy Garden, Kings Seeds, Roger Parsons, Sarah Raven, Seedaholic, Stupicke, Sungold, Tomatillo, tomato seeds
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Plotting the Progress of No Dig
Yesterday, when the sun came out unexpectedly (at least for me and the BBC forecast), I made a short visit to see the plot. Last time it had been frozen solid and it was difficult to tell what it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardboard mulch, Charles Dowding, dandelions, docks, no dig, slugs, WFGA
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Bags of Beans
Another wet and wildly windy week has just gone, so going out to mulch beds at the plot was not at all appealing. Tempting to carry on planting sweetpeas as they are germinating so obligingly, but even I can see … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergine, chillies, consolida dark blue larkspur, cowslips, pelargonium, Sweetpeas, tomatillos
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Splashes of Colour
The grey, damp and windy weather has settled back, but the cold week of frost seems to have wiped out most of the flowers which had survived the odds until after Christmas. Now the blues, purples and reds of the … Continue reading
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Tagged common primrose, February, hellebores, pulmonaria, rosemary, Salvias, vinca, Viola Heartsease
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Planning the Different Plots
Here is last week’s unposted (until now) post: A new year and only slowly surfacing from flu, it’s time to think about the developing plot and its flowers as well as the other plots and places I grow in, with … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, antirrhinum Night and Day, broad beans, Sweetpeas, weeds
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Reviewing the Plot
Christmas, New Year’s travels and week long flu have all meant almost nothing has been done since half way through December to develop the plot. Even getting to it hasn’t been possible. The last plot related activity was a Homesown … Continue reading
The Shortest Day
It may be the shortest day, but because of the unusually warm weather there are signs of growth and splashes of colour all around, despite the wind, wet and gloom. Outside, the bulbs are pushing with determination up into … Continue reading
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Darkening Days
So now it feels as if Winter is really here as the light starts fading at about four and there is no time after a full day at work to do anything outside at all – even in my new … Continue reading
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