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Gardening with ME: plans for the kitchen garden this coming season

15 September 202018 January 2020

  I’ve been mulling over what to grow in my veg beds this coming season. I decided to focus on the following categories: A) veg I love but cannot easily get hold of from our local supermarket,B) veg I love …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Vegetable beds, Vegetables

Forest garden border: reviewing the first season

10 September 20205 January 2020

The L-shaped forest garden border along the south (left) and west (right) facing fences, in July, prior to the new kitchen garden beds being created in front. My forest garden border was first planted out in March this year, and …

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Categories Apples, Blueberries, Comfrey, Damson, Forest Garden, Fruit trees, Gardening with ME, Sorrel

Growing asparagus: a little story about the triumph of hope over experience

10 September 202010 May 2019

I’m certain it’s not meant to be quite this hard to grow asparagus. I mean, I know it can take up to four years from when you sow the seeds or young plants, before you can start harvesting. But for …

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Categories Asparagus, Gardening with ME, Perennial Vegetables

Creating a mini forest garden border

10 September 20201 March 2019

For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …

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Categories back garden, Forest Garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS, Perennial Edibles, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Urban Gardens

Front garden – 3 months in

13 September 2018

New front garden The front garden seems to have come a long way since the landscaping was done in June. Before the landscaping: After the landscaping (view from above as I seem to have not taken a photo from the …

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Categories front garden, Gardening with ME, Hardy Perennial

An interim design for the new back garden

4 September 202021 June 2018

Work has completed on the back garden and I thought I should introduce the design and how it all looks now. The design for the back garden is not yet fully formed, but like with the front garden, I’d really like …

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Categories #MyalgicE, back garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS

New design for the front garden

10 June 2018

I’m in a bit of a bind. I want to follow permaculture principals and take time before making major decisions about my new garden. But I am also in an odd situation where I have exactly the same layout of …

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Categories #MyalgicE, front garden, Gardening with ME, Hardy Perennial, MECFS

The new garden

4 September 202030 April 2018

At the end of March, Kevin & I finally moved into our new, and hopefully long-term, home and garden. Yay! So this is a bit of an introduction to the new garden. It isn’t much now, but it has potential. …

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Categories #pwME, back garden, Chronic illness, front garden, Gardening with ME, MECFS, Permaculture

My garden right now: Autumn 2017 #mygardenrightnow

4 September 20202 September 2017

This weekend is the Autumn edition of My Garden Right Now. I took part in the early Spring (March) and Chelsea Fringe (June) editions, focusing upon my garden in pots. This time the focus is on resting in the garden. Due to …

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Categories British History, Gardening with ME, My Garden Right Now

My garden right now: Chelsea Fringe edition 2017 #mymardenrightnow

4 September 20203 June 2017

When I took part in My Garden Right Now back in March, my garden was all in pots as we were about to move house. Well, we have moved house, but as we are renting for a year, most of …

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Categories Gardening with ME, MECFS, My Garden Right Now
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