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    Our veg garden: planting, growing and harvesting

    by Mars 1 June 2020

    Our vegetable garden journey has been an eventful one, but it’s done and now it’s about the real business at hand: planting, growing and harvesting our veg.

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  • Smashed our all-time solar PV production record

    by Mars 31 May 2020

    In what has been the hottest and driest May in over a century in the UK, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’ve had a bumper solar month, smashing …

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  • Cucamelons: Adorable, cute, exotic and amazing

    by Mars 28 May 2020

    We went to our local garden centre last week to pick up some plants. As we are still waiting for our veg plugs from Marshalls to be delivered (it’s now …

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  • Built a large delivery and parcel box

    by Mars 24 May 2020

    As the lockdown continues with no obvious sign of when the Coronavirus drama will be over, we built a large delivery and parcel box because we’re going to increase the …

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  • New seating area at the pond

    by Mars 22 May 2020

    Our pond is a hive of activity during spring and summer, and it’s a great source of entertainment. While we have a deck area, we decided to create a new …

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  • Our first ever veg patch – part five – planting veg plugs and installing the gate on sloping land

    by Mars 20 May 2020

    Our veg patch is now very, very close to being completed. In this installment, we plant some of the veg plugs we’ve received from Marshalls and get around to installing …

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  • The importance of soil

    by Mars 19 May 2020

    Our new veg patch is ready to go, and I’m now paying special attention to the importance of soil. Most soil found in backyards across the world is a mixture …

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  • Red damselfly

    by Mars 16 May 2020

    I came across this beautiful red damselfly in our garden this week. I initially thought it was a dragonfly, but the extremely helpful community at Gardner’s World informed me it …

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  • Buying nematodes for the first time

    by Mars 13 May 2020

    Last week, while preparing our newly constructed raised beds, I came across a wireworm in the soil, which was not good news as we intend to grow potatoes and other …

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