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Garden from Scratch #6: Round, round, baby/Crop rotation

February 26, 2009
by F&F
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Crop rotation is desperately important in any vegetable garden, but especially so if you have nobly decided to follow organic practices. If you plant the same crop in the same bed year after year, pests and diseases will flock to the site and happily
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Edible playgrounds

February 25, 2009
by F&F
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Meet Tigger, the Garden from Scratch’s resident moggy. He’s an enormous RSPCA rescue cat who joined me on my 15th birthday, and has been jumping on to my bed at impossible hours of the morning ever since. Tigger is affectionate, demanding
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Garden from Scratch #5: In the beginning…

January 17, 2009
by F&F
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This morning was beautiful. After weeks of hiding under my duvet on Saturdays, trying to think of reasons to lie in all morning, the spring-like sunshine and cheerful breeze pushed me out of my door and into the garden.
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Garden from Scratch #4: Passing time

January 11, 2009
by F&F
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It was as I extracted a toy car and a clay elephant from the soil of the new vegetable patch that I knew my work was going to be cut out. Over the past few months the Garden from Scratch has undergone a great deal of change. Plants have been moved, o
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Garden from Scratch #3: The best laid plans…

October 26, 2008
by F&F
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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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Garden from Scratch #2: Starting out

September 14, 2008
by F&F
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Coriander seedlings growing on the balcony I’m not very good at waiting. I know patience is hailed as a key trait for gardeners, but I like to get a move on and do things. Which is why I’ve been hard at work in the garden before we have e
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Garden from Scratch

August 11, 2008
by F&F
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Fennel and Fern has been rather silent over the past few days, and there’s a good reason. We’ve been relocating to the site of our new garden project in a city in the South of England. In hindsight, it was never going to be an easy choice
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