June's to-do list
I love June - the start of summer and the weather is starting to feel hot but not, usually, unbearably so. Flowers are at their peak as...
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Sue
- May 1
- 3 min
May's To-Do list.
Tender edibles can go out into the garden now - tomatoes, chillies, basil, aubergines, peppers, courgettes can all be planted outside...
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Sue
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Simple Salvias........my step by step guide
The popular shrubby salvia is really easy to propagate and now is the time to do it. If your friend has a nice example of Hot Lips (the...
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Sue
- Apr 14
- 3 min
Fairy eggs and funny eggs
Our chickens have been laying some pretty odd eggs of late. We have had beautiful.large spotty eggs, small ones from our new pullet (a...
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Sue
- Mar 31
- 4 min
April in the garden
TS Elliot called April "the cruellest month" and, although the context is different (he was writing about Europe in the wake of the first...
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Sue
- Feb 23
- 6 min
Did you smell the petrichor?
It is raining heavily today - at last. The garden is grateful and, as the first rain fell, the soil gave up a distinctive smell - called...
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Sue
- Feb 7
- 6 min
February In The Garden
I always think that Pope Gregory Xlll must have enjoyed a joke when he created February. It is the shortest month, but it is one of the...
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Sue
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Is this the ultimate dry garden?
We are on holiday - island hopping in the Atlantic while our alter egos, Dick and Susie, (yes really) stay at our house in France to...
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Sue
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
January in the garden
I write this on New Year's Eve (sad person that I am) having come inside from a glorious afternoon outside. Today we saw temperatures of...
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Sue
- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Power of the Moon
In 2004 we bought an old farm which still had a few old plum trees on it, but they produced very small fruit. A neighbouring farmer...
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Sue
- Nov 21, 2022
- 3 min
Bumblefoot
The name was new to me and I have kept hens for most of my life, but another family member identified it immediately. One of our little...
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Sue
- Nov 12, 2022
- 6 min
Things to do in November
I know this is late and there has been significant radio silence from the blog for the last six weeks, but activity is resumed and, if...
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Sue
- Sep 13, 2022
- 4 min
Here come the shape shifters
We have a large clump of bamboo. It was here when we arrived, has the potential to be highly invasive and we should have taken it out at...
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Sue
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
September garden tasks
What needs to be done in the garden in September depends so much upon the weather. It is one of those change-over months which can mean a...
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Sue
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Summertime in a jar
On our kitchen windowsill - tarragon macerating in white wine vinegar, some rather optimistically taken soft wood cuttings and ripening...
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Sue
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
Winners and losers
This evening I am wandering around the garden at what I hope will be the end of the last canicule of 2022, notebook in hand. I want to...
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Sue
- Aug 2, 2022
- 4 min
August in the garden
I have never known heat like this. It has been sustained for week after week and we find ourselves in the third official "canicule" -...
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Sue
- Jun 30, 2022
- 5 min
July in the garden
I write this on June 30th as we approach sun baked July (it is currently raining heavily). At least that means that I should not have to...
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Sue
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
June in the Garden
And now it is summer…expect rain imminently. Or possibly. Despite a very wet early spring already there are water restrictions in France....
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Sue
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
Splurge on spurge
Spurge is the common name for wild euphorbias - a little acid green plant common in some meadows and verges. They are members of a...
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