Garden update

This pretty gaura is the only thing I can find in the garden worth photographing at the moment.
The tomatoes, raspberries and strawberry plants are all looking distinctly sorry for themselves, and the garden is generally in need of a bit of TLC.
There’s something about living in a first floor flat which makes it difficult to [...]

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More on that fox cub…

I mentioned a little while ago that a fox cub had fallen through the roof of my greenhouse.  This sounds rather alarming, and caused some consternation on the comment threads, so I thought I should clarify.  My little garden is all of 16ft square, and backs onto a 12ft, ivy clad wall, over the other [...]

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Concrete

My neighbour is paving his 30ft garden with massive slabs of battleship coloured concrete.  This is a tragedy, clearly, but it was going to happen sooner or later.  He lets the house out to students, a transient bunch of doctors and nurses (probably, we live across the road from a hospital, so it seems a [...]

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Compost

I’ve had my current wormery for over a year now, and I think I have finally ironed out all the various death traps inherent in the system.  I used to murder the entire population once every six months or so, but now I think I’ve finally worked out how to avoid drowning, frying or starving [...]

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Update!

Er… not doing very well on the blogging front this year.  Sorry.  For those of you who are bored of the Eco Kettle rant, here is a picture of Wilb guarding this year’s crop!  Tomatoes, raspberries, strawberries and a stray potato which must be from last year.  I predict more frequent posts after May.  Hope [...]

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