The walled garden
My variation on the walled garden – tree shelterbelts inside secure boundary fences that keep our livestock in and neighbouring farmers’ animals out. Of course, our place is not a ten-acre garden surrounded by...
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Talking of vegetable babies – it must be spring!
My feet, in gumboots, crunch down on the dry, brittle stalks of the linseed straw covered pathways of the vegetable garden. Two long rows of mounded up earth hide early season Lisetta potato tubers....
A time to plant, I swear it’s not too late
Graham R. Cooper Turn! Turn! Turn! Song by The Byrds To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose under heaven A time to be...
Winter Vegetables: Part Two
Graham R. Cooper My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. – from ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell June’s passion for gardening is pivotal when it comes to her...
Winter Vegetables: Part One
Graham R. Cooper A couple we are friendly with through family connections dropped in mid-week; they were keen to have a wander round our vegetable garden. That got me thinking about just how many...
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