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Allotmenting:: And so it begins ::

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 25, 2012

The seeds arrived a couple of weeks ago now, but with the arrival of some of the live plants this week, I really started to get going on this years growing season. Oh my, it is awfully exciting, so much hope and expectation in each tiny little seed.

I purchased the majority of my seeds from these guysthis year, and they certainly look fabulous (obviously I can't vouch for the seeds themselves...

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Tags: garden, gardening, growing, heart, plant, planting, plants, pots, seeds, sow, sowing, spinach, strawberries

exciting times...

Posted by vicki brown on Mar 31, 2011

...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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Tags: containers, flowers, fruit, garden, gardening, herbs, march, permaculture, pots, spring, vegetables

vermicomposting...

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 17, 2011

...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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Tags: compost, garden, gardening, indoor, vermicompost, vermicomposting, vermiculture, wormery, worms

January 05 2011 ::

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 05, 2011

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...