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No dig diary, 25th May 2024

Having spent yesterday composting new beds, I decided today was the day that I should catch up with the greenhouses. There’s garlic in part of the bed in one and nothing in the other but potted strawberries, so neither was … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 21st May 2024

I completed the last bit of outdoor weeding today, at long last. And in fact then completed the spreading of compost on the main veggie plot in the bed I had just weeded. I really should have got that done … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 13th May 2024

Rain, rain and more rain was the forecast for today, but I was able to get out early doors and finish spreading compost on the new flower bed and dump a couple of barrow loads on a veggie bed that … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 11th May 2024

Thanks to my wife weeding yesterday I ended up with one more bed to spread compost on, alongside Frankenstein’s greenhouse. That didn’t take a huge amount however, so first I cleared the weeds from half of another bed and covered … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 10th May 2024

I’m now completely out of space in the compost bins. Most of the grass was mowed yesterday and the “active” one ended up heaped as high as it would go. I need to use up some of the compost in … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 10th April 2023: The veggie plot clearout commences

It’s time for all the “old stuff” to come out of the veggie plot now and make way for this year’s plants. Onto the compost heap it all went. Up and up went the compost heap, up and up went … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 3rd January 2023: Christmas T-shirts

Gifts from my children. And so appropriate that it’s almost a shame to wear them when they might get damaged 😀

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Feeling a bit low

As I posted yesterday, this was how the current compost heap looked on Sunday evening. I threw a bit more stuff on and today buried a couple of dead rats in it, but having had forty-eight hours to get going, … Continue reading

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Get it while it’s hot!

As we put a lot of material into the compost heap this weekend I thought I’d check the temperature. I really ought to find some convenient way to use at least some of that heat, but this far I don’t … Continue reading

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Quick! Mow the grass!

The grass has been growing steadily this winter thanks to the relatively mild temperatures and it’s generally been way too wet to mow it, so the lawn and grass in the vegetable plot were starting to look like a jungle. … Continue reading

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