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Tag Archives: gardening
New year, new blog resolutions
It’s the 3rd January. I wanted to do a blog post about New Years resolutions which is pertinent as one of my New Years resolutions is to go back to blogging. It’s been almost a year since my last post … Continue reading
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Tagged bee keeping, cooking, Fitness, gardening, New year, resolutions
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The Secret stash
In the back garden we have a run full of hens. In the front garden we have another smaller hen run which houses “Monty”, the Millie Fleur Pekin and couple of ladies to keep him company. As it is wintertime … Continue reading
Preparing the raised beds
It’s a sunny day, its March and the time has come to really make an impression on the garden. I’ve had all sorts of plans coming and going about what I’m going to do with the place but now its … Continue reading
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Tagged alan titchmarsh, birds, garden, gardening, nature, niger seed, plants, trees
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Pea time
Suddenly the garden is filled with pea pods. Bursting to get out it seemed only fair to take some up north on my latest job. The interesting thing about the peas is how few they turn out to be. A … Continue reading
Bee Mix Bees
During the planting season I took a small square of the garden to plant for bees, a couple of packs of mixed seed ‘bee mix’ and that was about all it needed. The ‘bee corner’ is now dappled in colour … Continue reading
First Fruits
During my fleeting visit home between jobs I was lucky enough to witness the up turning of the first potato plant. It was a tense moment, but there in a tangle of roots were the little potatoes. Very small, granted, … Continue reading
Progress Report…
I’m now home and surrounded by the multitudes of summer, flowers here there and everywhere, baby birds peeping left right and centre and hopefully very soon garden produce? In truth some things have done better than others the lettuces, for … Continue reading
“Garden Guests”
I’ve been feeding the little dicky birds in the garden since last autumn and all through the difficult winter, so I now have a reliable incoming of cheepers, mostly sparrows, blue tits and chaffinchs with the occasional reed bunting and … Continue reading
Its taken a few months for it to look like this and even now nothing is quite ready to harvest and eat. Despite that I can’t helping feeling incredibly proud of our little veg patch. I’ve grown herbs intermittently for … Continue reading
Checking the Chives
There’s not more denying it. My Chives have flowered. I alway like to take a small selection of herbs from my own garden whenever I go cooking. I think that’s the kind of thing that people hire a cook for; … Continue reading
Letters From A Lodge Cook 