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Saturday, 31 January 2015

Brrr, Wind Chills but Signs of Spring

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Look! The first flower on the plot! It seems very early; the other grape hyacinths haven't even got buds that I could see. Lovely to s...
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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Counting Birds and Planting Garlic (again)

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The temperature over the last week has been a bit up and down, but the coldest of the very frosty nights sank to -5°. It felt chillier tha...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Mostly About Birds

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It was another cold day but lovely and bright so we took some more compost up to the plot and picked a cabbage and couple of carrots. The c...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

Talking of... This January Weather ...

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We woke to a very frosty Hungerford today and even saw some gentle snowflakes falling but not enough to settle. Early afternoon we took som...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Last mention of Christmas..?

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It's been so windy recently but no damage on our plot, just a few pots and netting re-arranged. One plot on site looks like a tornado h...
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Friday, 2 January 2015

Burning New Year Wishes

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We had a lovely couple of hours on the allotment this afternoon; quite surprised to be the only ones there as it was so sunny and pleasant,...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015

ByeBye 2014!

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Looking back it wasn't such a bad year, but with just 32 blogposts clearly much of it wasn't on the allotment - 2015 will be more ...
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Sunday, 7 December 2014

A Big Sprout?

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No, it's a cabbage! The first of this year's. There are masses of white fly so we had to remove lots of outer leaves, but there...
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Sunday, 23 November 2014

Soup, but no garlic, yet

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A rainy and grey weekend means we still haven't planted our garlic - I think there's still plenty of time (even though I hear Garde...
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Sunday, 16 November 2014

More Carrots, More Soup

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We only visited the wet plot this afternoon to put some kitchen scraps in the compost bin and pull the carrots. We can't remember what ...
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