Growing our own vegetables

April 18th, 2010

My wife and I decided this year that we would have a go at growing our own vegetables after watching the new BBC series, the edible garden. We are total novices at growing anything because we have only had our garden for 2 years and the first year it was all patio slabs that needed [...]

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Gardening

February 28th, 2010

With spring time just about to start I am getting ready for spring to start in the garden.  This will be the first year that I have really had a garden to make nice.  Last year we spent the whole time getting it ready, putting down a new lawn, getting rid of all the rubble/sand [...]

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Cleaning the house

January 17th, 2010

The snow has finally gone, it was a real surprise looking out of the window to see green on Saturday.  It feeling like ages since there has been any colour in the outside world.  We opened the curtains and were amazed it is like spring has arrived, out bulbs are already emerging and it is [...]

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Raised beds

October 25th, 2009

I finally got around to starting to build my raised beds.    I had read up about raised beds and how treated wood can be bad for the plants but in the end I don’t care about organically grown veg in the super market so I am not bothered at home either.  So I decided to [...]

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