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Green Lane Allotments

January 15, 2009
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Green Lane Allotments       In the first of her regular guest blogs from Green Lane Allotments, Susan Garrett introduces her plot and gets us excited about allotment gardening.
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Garden Raspberries by Alison

January 14, 2009
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Garden Raspberries, originally uploaded by Alison Now’s the time to get your hands on some bare-rooted raspberries for planting as soon as possible. The plants are dormant at this time of year, and so won’t be harmed by the planting, but
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Community Garden {December}

December 13, 2008
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New Routes: December 2008 by Jill Coleman       A few years ago, when the MacIntyre Workshop (as the Learning Centre was called in those days) was starting to expand we thought about running a few gardening sessions. It was probably in about 2003 tha
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Community Garden {November}

November 13, 2008
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New Routes: November 2008 by Jill Coleman     Well, the Open Day at the orchard was a great success. In the middle of a grey, chilly week, blighted with squally showers, the weather was kind to us on the day and offered up blue skies and fluffy white
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Garden from Scratch #3: The best laid plans…

October 26, 2008
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Finally, we have a formal plan for the Garden From Scratch. Until now, we’ve been working from scribblings on post-it notes and at the edge of notebooks. The ink has barely dried before the work has commenced. In fact, a rough sketch in August
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Community Garden {October #2}

October 14, 2008
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New Routes: October 2008 by Jill Coleman       It’s late in the season, but the growing continues. The onion sets and garlic should go in this week as we spent most of Friday clearing away the rampant growth of nasturtiums that had smothered th
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Community Garden {October #1}

October 13, 2008
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New Routes: October 2008 by Jill Coleman     With our rather soggy summer waving a forlorn farewell from the horizon, autumn is now well and truly upon us. Rather than spending the season in rest and reflection, though, it’s all been busy, busy, busy
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Better Together: Companion Planting

July 21, 2008
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Image: Martine at http://www.banlieusardises.com/ If something is chomping your carrots or munching your mizuna, don’t reach out for the pesticide. There are plants at hand which are much better at protecting your fruit and veg than harmful che
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