As a follow up to our recent post about the crazy price of timber, I had a very successful visit to our local wood merchants and hardware store earlier this …
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It has been quite a challenging year for gardening so far because the weather has been so unstable and changeable. May has been extremely wet, overcast and cold, and everything …
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We decided that we would extend our vegetable garden this year and make some 2×2 metre raised beds in the field so that we can grow sprawling vegetables like pumpkins …
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One of our main summer projects this year is to build raised beds for cut flowers. We are building them in the front garden, and this year Kirsten has decided …
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I received two mesh grow tunnels for Christmas, and they’ve come in extremely useful given the mixed weather we’ve had so far in 2021. The biggest issue with these particular …
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We recently mentioned that we had quite a lot of work done to get our air source heat pump central heating running more efficiently. Central to this work were the …
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Given how unpredictable the weather has been, we use our studio to safeguard our seedlings and seasonal plants in the spring because we don’t have a greenhouse. So Kirsten suggested …
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Last year, while building our vegetable garden from the ground up, we painstakingly laid chicken wire at the bottom of our fence that ran one metre under the pathways to …
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We started preparing for our vegetable growing season in March, but our vegetable garden has been very, very busy indeed. We discovered that we had field voles that were tunnelling …
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Today, we finished transferring the majority of our seedlings into our raised beds in the vegetable garden, with the exception of the tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and courgettes that we’ve left …