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Gardening with ME: what’s flowering in the garden in June

14 May 202122 June 2016

I’ve not been up to blogging or gardening recently. The ME has been bad and I’ve needed to rest. I was able to get out into the garden and take some photos on the weekend, so I thought I’d just …

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Categories #MyalgicE, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Shady Border

Gardening with ME: May garden update

14 May 20219 May 2016

In recent posts I’ve mainly been blogging about gardens to visit and Spoonie Veg, so I thought it was time to do a general update of the garden. Kitchen garden In my small kitchen garden I’ve kept to my decision …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Ornmental garden

Permaculture design for a urban garden

4 September 202025 January 2016

In the last few weeks I’ve ignored the blog, because I’ve been working on a permaculture garden design for my friends J-P and Kate. I completed my Certificate in Permaculture Design back in 2010. I undertook a couple of small …

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Categories Kitchen garden, ME, Permaculture, Sheffield Sow & Grow

Gardening with ME: a review of 2015

4 September 202029 December 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, like many garden bloggers I have been reflecting on the past year in the garden. As a garden blogger who gardens with a chronic illness, ME, it could be easy to focus upon all …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Perennial

Gardening with ME: gardening, blogging & ME

4 September 202011 July 2015

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that there wasn’t a June #GardeningWithME post, and that in general, I’ve not been blogging quite so much. Geranium Ann Folkard next to my garlic crop When you garden with ME or another …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden

Garden visit: Helmsley Walled Garden

16 May 202123 June 2015

Helmsley Walled Garden, view from the perennial meadow It’s hard not to be attracted to the romance of a walled garden and on a recent holiday to the North York Moors I visited two, this one, Helmsley Walled Garden, and …

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Categories Garden visit, Hardy Perennial, Kitchen garden, Photography, Yorkshire

Gardening with ME: kitchen garden update

4 September 202023 May 2015

The strawberries are flowering well Back in January I talked about planning the kitchen garden year. I thought that it would be good for me to do an update, looking at what I said then and how things have panned …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden

Gardening with ME: planning the kitchen garden year

4 September 202012 January 2015

The dark days of December are over. The light at the end of the tunnel, that is, the ever lengthening days of January and the promise of a new kitchen gardening year, are in reach. Like many gardeners, I suffer …

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Categories Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Permaculture

End of month/year view: December 2014

4 September 202031 December 2014

Short video of the garden each month during the year (c. 48s) NOTE: this is best viewed by clicking on the YouTube icon* 2014 saw the first full year of my new garden in growth after the landscaping was undertaken …

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Categories Bog gardening, End of month view, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Perennial, Permaculture

Gardening with ME: sowing broad beans via micro-tasking

4 September 202014 December 2014

“I’m going to sow some broad beans”. It sounds like a simple enough task. Like you can just pop outside for a few minutes and quickly sow the beans. But of course it isn’t so straight-forward. Before you sow you …

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Categories Broad Beans, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden
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