Blog — gardening
Allotmenting:: And so it begins ::
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exciting times...
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...I have been a fairly absent blogger, but I most certainly have not been an absent gardener the last couple of months. There are seedlings on every available windowsill in my house, weighing down the shelves of my little green house and even a few outside (though some naughty snail/slug has devoured two of my baby marigolds).
Here is a little list of what is currently growing in some form or...
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vermicomposting...
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...I have wanted a wormery for such a long time and now we finally have one! I wanted to make one, but we were lucky enough to be given one of these lovelies for christmas.
I'm a little anxious about the worms though, I'm really worried we going to over/under feed them! But I can't wait to have all that fabulous compost and plant feed, if all does go well! They are living under the kitchen sink at...
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January 05 2011 ::
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So I've been a little rubbish at keeping this blog updated, but I haven't really been doing a lot of gardening, so I guess that makes it sort of OK?!
There isn't much happening yet either it must be said, but will a haul of new gardening books from christmas and the promise of spring, very slowly, approaching, I will gradually be sowing some seeds and tidying up my new out door space ready for...
Trusses and violas!
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I have some of my first trusses appearing on my tomato plants!
So exciting!
I also bought myself a few violas today.
I am completely in love with the black molly sanderson's.
Johnny feels growing flowers is wasted time and space (which is of course nonsense) so I am restricting myself to only edible flowers!
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