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A Wander around the Allotments in June
Here we are at the half way point of the year in the June allotment wanderings. As usual we shall start on our own plot to see what has been going on. Our little wildlife pond is beginning to look more...
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Our Wise Watering Campaign
On our allotment site this year the management committee are running a Wise Watering Campaign, with the aim of reducing the amount of water used by plot holders. We were ashamed to hear that our site...
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Wandering in a Wet Woodland
It is pouring with rain – continuous heavy miserable rain pouring down from a dark grey headache-inducing sky. Humidity clings to us. Too wet even for us rain-defying gardeners to get out and garden,...
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Go South 4. Dungeness RSPB Reserve.
Our plans to explore the shingle slopes of Dungeness soon came somewhat adrift. The wind increased to gale force. We decided to defy it and take the walk along the fisherman’s boardwalk across to the...
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Winter Birds in our Garden
(Hope you like the new look! Please let me know what you think.) In recent years we have seen the numbers of most birds visiting our garden, even the commonest, dropping most drastically. Goldfinches,...
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Odd Harvests
In the last few weeks of last year we harvested two plants that we have rarely harvested before but for very different reasons. The first crop came from the greenhouse where the plants had been growing...
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Hedgerow Maintenance – the good, the bad and the downright ugly.
Driving around the countryside around our home in Shropshire we are struck at the difference between the worst and the best examples of hedgerow maintenance. Some are beautifully trimmed providing...
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Go North – Find Spring
Living here in the midlands, neither North nor South, we always go South to get an early glimpse of Spring or north to get a late look at Winter. This year it all seems topsy-turvy! Earlier this week...
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Hide’n’squeak in the allotments!
We are developing ever closer links with our county’s wildlife trust, the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and our allotment community gardens at Bowbrook. (see website http://www.bowbrookallotments.co.uk and...
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Two Cheshire Gardens in one day
Jude and I arranged a coach trip to visit some Cheshire gardens for the Shropshire Group of the Hardy Plant Society as part of our programme secretaries role. The main garden was Arley Hall but we...
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