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- golden gooseberry jelly
- golden sweet mange tout
- gooseberries
- gooseberry jam
- greenhouse
- hanging basket
- lemon apple cucumber
- lemon verbena
- no-dig allotment
- onions
- purple basil
- quince
- radishes
- rose de roscoff onions
- shed
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- sweetcorn
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- tomatoes
- yellow raspberries
- zinnias
Tag Archives: box hedging
sunday best
The allotment judges will be doing their rounds soon so I assuaged my post-referendum bleakness with a weekend of tidying. It’s not so much a desire to ‘win’ – more a sense of wanting my beloved huerto to be looking … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, peas
Tagged asparagus, box hedging, courgettes, crimson flowered broad beans, gooseberries, lettuce, quince, Real Seed Company, strawberries, tomatoes
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ladybirds and box trimming
Awake early, I was at the huerto by 6am and breakfasted on my first cucumber and precious three hanging basket strawberries (Temptation, you manifest in my neighbour’s big juicy strawberry bed!). Delicious, but hardly sustaining. The task du jour was … Continue reading
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