Category: gardening
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Shed Loads of Fun
Demolition in the heat… Following on from the success of our Asgard bike shed, back in March I ordered a 18×7 foot metal shed to replace our old wooden one erected by the previous owners of our house. The old shed was actually two sheds – one eating the other one – which meant that…
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Summer Rains
After a few weeks of summer, we’re back to Autumn with drenching rains. That hasn’t quite dampened our enthusiasm for getting stuff done. Yes, July is proving to be a wet month already. Good for the plants, but not quite as good for those trying to do things outdoors. We did have the odd sensation…
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Sun? In England? You must be mistaken
Yes, Plymouth has seen about 24 hours of sun, uninterrupted by rain. This is a complete departure from recent weeks and months, and triggered a specific reaction seen within a proportion of the population…gardening. This year I’m behind (am I behind if I’m behind every year?) in the garden department. I’ve cleared out one raised…
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Games, Gourds, and Gameras?
Here’s a squash. It’s quite big… Cyberpunk 2077: The plot thickens… On loading the Cyberpunk 2077 disc into my PS4, I was faced with an expected update notice. Was this the revolutionary 2.0 version? Nope. The PS4 version made it to 1.6, but that’s where the developers (CD Projekt Red) have bowed out. The PS4…
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In Hot Water (Cylinder), and Plants
Heat wave? Rain storm? What’s going on?! The weather has been weird recently. It’s either torrential rain and flash flooding, or tree-splitting sun and blue skies. Summer is going out with a bang. We’ve spent the last week hanging out with family and friends As a follow-up to the last conservatory DIY post, I’ve finished…
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Changing Gardens Part Two (Chronicle of the Dump)
The work in the garden continued over the last week. We’ve almost wrapped up the project. We’re back in the back of the garden for another installment. This one is even more plant-filled thanks to the new fern bed installed after we removed a smaller dead tree. We finished off the last installment with the…
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Changing Gardens (Chronicle of the Dump)
This post is more of a visual, photo-heavy one documenting the in-progress transformation of the back of our garden. We un-paved paradise, and put up a playground… The area at the back of our garden had been used as a dump for generations of folks. Broken bottles. Wheelbarrows. Insulation. Broken bricks. Mobile phones. You name…
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Garden of Corn and Wine
The glorious sun continues, as does Devon’s hosepipe ban. There have been a lot of watering cans on the go… Gardening Finally, we’ve had a great stretch of warm weather that the plants have embraced wholeheartedly. The weedy specimens in the raised beds from a few weeks ago have become established, if not fully fledged,…
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Pumped Out – Further Delays
The title not only refers to this delayed post but another setback in the British Gas air source heat pump saga. The workshop was cleared out. The walls stripped. The shed re-organised. The tent pitched and ready accomodate a good proportion of the contents of the house. What could go wrong? It was too good…
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Gardening in the Rain
Gotta plant! (Is that considered an esoteric reference these days?) The spring hasn’t quite sprung yet, as we experienced an abortive warm spell followed by cold and wet weather. The slugs are having an absolute bash, but I’m less impressed. Although it has dampened me, it hasn’t dampened my spirits. After getting a little fed…
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