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Pruning sedum

April 30, 2009
by F&F
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Sedum looks incredible at this time of year, especially following the warm, wet weather we’ve been experiencing here on the South coast. But come late July and August, as the plant limbers up to produce those spectacular helipad blooms, the ste
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Autumn (and winter, and a bit of spring) King carrots.

April 29, 2009
by F&F
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Hoorah. The first carrots from the Garden from Scratch. I sowed these Autumn King II in September as an experiment to see if they would make it through the winter. Which they did. They have been growing in a deep container on the balcony, which gets
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Green Lane Allotments {April#4}

April 28, 2009
by Green Lane Allotments
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Green Lane Allotments 28 April     Another week where a major challenge was to decide whether to leave a sweater on or take it off. When the sun was shining it was quite hot and summery but as soon as it disappeared behind a cloud the temperature chi
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Real Gardens: Diana’s Garden

April 27, 2009
by F&F
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One day Diana Harrison sat amongst the tall phlox and the stonecrop in her garden. After a few minutes she found herself surrounded by hordes of honeybees. “They were too preoccupied to even notice me,” she observes. “It was an experience beyond word
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Asparagus

April 26, 2009
by F&F
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Image by Liz West Growing asparagus is a long-term investment. It’s a trust fund you can’t open for three years, but when you do, you’ll be eating the king of vegetables at a fraction of its supermarket price.
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Here comes the sun

April 25, 2009
by F&F
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Shame upon the stuffy gardener who thinks sunflowers are a bit common. Such gardeners are grumpy and clearly lost their school sunflower-growing competition. Planting a few of these annuals will make your garden look like the sort of sunny, fun place
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Newspaper pots

April 24, 2009
by F&F
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I don’t just grow plants, I grow newspapers too. Every day, a new pile of them appears next to my bed, and in the recycling box, and under my bed. This is actually rather handy, as I’m sowing seeds non-stop at the moment, and our stash of
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{Vegalicious} Asparagus with potato dressing

April 23, 2009
by Vegalicious
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 Vegalicious April 2009  Asparagus with potato dressing     Asparagus is one of our favorite vegetables. We look forward to springtime when the first asparagus will appear in the markets. Historically, it’s known that asparagus was enjoyed in a
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Prim and proper

April 22, 2009
by F&F
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Nothing is quite so cheering about the English spring as the Primrose, Primula vulgaris. And nothing is quite so depressing as the sight of bright yellow, pink and red cultivars bringing ‘spring colour’ to miserable-looking beds. These ga
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Green Lane Allotments {April#3}

April 21, 2009
by Green Lane Allotments
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Green Lane Allotments 21 April      Although the greenery says spring, winter is still challenging the idea and sending some cold winds. When the sun pushes through it is lovely and warm. It’s the sort of weather that the plants and wildlife must fin
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Slugging it out

April 20, 2009
by F&F
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  I met this slug as he journeyed across my compost heap. Unfortunately, it was his last journey, as I am one of the awful, brutal gardeners who keeps a pair of ‘slug-cutting’ scissors in their coat pocket. I’m sorry, Mr Slug, but t
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Garden from Scratch #7: Peas and Harmony

April 19, 2009
by F&F
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Peas ready to be planted out The Garden from Scratch is starting to look more like a garden and less like a bare soil museum. Two of the veg beds are edged with garlic, which is looking very proud of itself at the moment, and the third is holding our
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