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I intend to spend much more time in the garden than I did last year (I blame endless unpacking and house sorting on that) and aim to get a higher vegetable yield this year (weather permitting!). I’m already spending regular time now in the garden whenever I can getting rid of the dense web [...] My poor little head is too full of too many things to do (an exciting dot com project with my beloved,administrative work for our small internet business,a small babe and two little kids on summer holidays to look after,a house to keep in order,tummies to feed,this blog to [...] EDIT:We’ve set up a new blog called Becoming Self Sufficient that you may also be interested in visiting. Its a new long term project that has just emerged for this family but since Bealers has been Head of Veg Gardening and really enjoying it (having never planted or grown anything before he’s [...] The Willow Den in the background will get much leafier this summer Last March we bought the willow withies to make a willow den for the children as our garden has no shade after midday during the summer months. Withies can be bought from November-March in the UK when the wood is [...] My son really disliked peas. The way to get him to finally after years of cajoling him try some and announce ‘Yum!’was staightforward but long winded in the extreme. I had to sow peas,grow peas,stake the peas,have the children pick the peas,shell the peas and only then did he feel [...] Loads of visitors have wondered what we have growing over our willow den to make it look so leafy so I thought I’d post an update to the original post ‘How to make a willow den for under £40′so that anyone interested in making one next year will see that it GETS LEAFY ALL [...] Last month my daughter and I decided to create a mini pond in our rented garden with the hope of finding some frogspawn to come and live in it. We built the pond from an inexpensive ‘tub trug’and placed loads of rocks in it and around it so the small creatures could get in [...] While at the Malvern Spring Show I saw a ‘swimming pond’show garden. My friend Tissy reminded me how we used to go swimming in Hampstead Lido which was an enormous swimming pond. I really love ponds and would love one day to have a big pond to attract lots of frogs and other [...] My friend Tissy and I had a great day out at the Malvern Spring Garden show last week &amazingly the rain held off for us. We both love gardening and knew that there would be plenty of opportunity to see lovely planting ideas with the show gardens and chance to spend a day looking [...] http://www.wrap.org.uk/caw/index.html The seventh annual Compost Awareness Week (CAW) will be celebrated nationwide from Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th May 2007. Compost Awareness Week aims to encourage more people to recognise the benefits of home composting and the great results that can be achieved by using peat-free composts containing recycled materials [...] | ||||||
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