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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

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

Mobile Sheffield

11 July 2017

Sheffield city centre is a decent sized city. From the Castlegate area down to the Moor Market, it’s about 2 miles. There used to be a city circle bus route that you could hop on and off to get to …

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Categories Accessibility, MECFS, Other Musings

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

Book review: The Deckchair Gardener

14 August 202026 May 2017

The Deckchair Gardener: an improper gardening manual, Anne Wareham. As someone who is now trying to garden with a chronic illness (ME), I’m always on the lookout for ideas on how I might reduced what I need to do in …

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Categories Book Review, Gardening books, Gardening with ME, MECFS

ME Awareness Day 2017, and my gardening clogs

4 August 202012 May 2017

12th May marks ME Awareness Day. In particularly, the #MillionsMissing movement aims to raise awareness for M.E., an underfunded and ignored disease. Today we ask for increased government funding for research, clinical trials, medical education and public awareness. It’s timely …

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Categories MECFS, Other Musings

Garden visit: Renishaw with friends

22 April 2017

We visit Renishaw Hall Gardens at least a couple of times a year, and often around bluebell time. This year coincided with Easter and friends. So this is a slightly tongue-in-cheek take on visiting Renishaw Hall Gardens with friends. If …

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Categories Accessibility, Derbyshire, Garden visit, MECFS, Spring

Introducing the new garden

4 September 202026 March 2017

We have recently moved to a bungalow we are renting for a year or so, and I thought it was time to introduce the new garden. Above is a photo of what the garden looked like when we moved in. …

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Categories Container growing, Gardening with ME, MECFS
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