Garden update in pictures

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Nothing to say?

Despite the fact that things are happening in my life (obviously, but you know what I mean) I find that I have little or nothing to say about them, so I will just make a brief annotated list to keep you informed:

I’m going to start a ‘new’ job on 1st July. I will still have [...]

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The garden in May

This post is really just for me to record what’s happening in the garden at the moment. Lots of things are growing and flowering, some other things are still struggling. I’ve been given a few tomato plants by our neighbour and I gave him some peppers in return. Anyway, here are some pictures of the [...]

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Digging

I’m digging the garden and playing on the computer at the same time. Well, not literally. I’m digging with breaks. I thought that was probably the most sensible thing to do, in the circumstances. The ground is not easy to dig, as it’s on a slope and full of rocks! I think the garden is [...]

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Three days of rain…and other things

I don’t feel that I really have much to say at the moment, hence the recent dirth of blog posts. However, today I thought I would just write an updating sort of post.
Last week, I went to the garden centre, which was lovely. I tried not to get carried away. The aim was to buy [...]

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Planting time

I planted lots of things this morning:

Tomatoes
Radishes
Spring onions
Sunflowers
Cayenne peppers
“Patio sizzle” peppers
Carrots
Chives

They are all planted in pots outside or trays on the windowsill. I just hope the outdoor ones survive slug and squirrel attacks. Something has been digging up the anenome bulbs I planted the year before last, just as their beginning to grow, which is [...]

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Snowbound

Yesterday, I worked from home due to no trains running because of the snow. I can’t say that I did a full 7.5 hours work, but then I probably don’t do this when I’m actually in the Library of Doom either. At least I got some things done so I didn’t have to do them [...]

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Snowdrop

It’s a nice, sunny day today, although it’s still quite cold. I thought I’d take the opportunity to take a picture of the snowdrop before the snow we’ve been promised for the near future starts coming down. As you can see, there are signs of other snowdrops about the come through and flower. I hope [...]

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The first snowdrop of spring, 2009

Last year I recorded my year’s first sighting of a snowdrop on January 27th. I noticed the first snowdrop of 2009 today. In fact, I think it’s the same bulb flowering again. I want to take a photograph of it, but the weather was too horrible to do that today. I’m getting rather fed up with the [...]

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Pigeons beware!

Yesterday, I wandered down to the kitchen at some not-very-respectful hour of the morning, opened the blind on the kitchen door and saw a sparrowhawk breakfasting on a pigeon in our back garden, right by the back door. I’ve never seen a sparrowhawk so close up before, I’ve only seen one flying a couple of [...]

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