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My top tip for keeping cats, foxes and birds off your newly sown beds

10 September 20206 May 2020

Frequently I see people comment on social media about the difficulty of keeping cats, foxes and other creatures, off their newly sown beds. I thought I’d share my tip, which pretty much always works. Right: Parsnip seed These are newly …

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Categories Animals, Birds, Cats, Foxes, Kitchen garden, Vegetable beds, Vegetables

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

New veg beds – aka finally making a decision on the final layout of my kitchen garden

10 September 202017 July 2019

The kitchen garden? Not an inspiring photograph, is it? I mean, yes, you can see my slowly developing Forest Garden Border around the edges (the blueberries are nearly ready!), and some raised beds with garlic. But the lawn dominates. However, …

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Categories Forest Garden, Kitchen garden, Permaculture, Vegetable beds, Vegetables

Spoonie Veg: growing in raised beds and containers

14 May 20217 April 2016

After publishing my introduction to Spoonie Veg post, I received some really interesting and helpful perspectives from readers, both on my blog and in Twitter conversations. One thing that came out of this was that I realised a post on …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Container growing, Gardening with ME, Raised beds, Spoonie Veg, Vegetable beds

My entries for “Great British Spud Off 2014”

14 August 202013 April 2014

I love potatoes. Just love them. Growing them, cooking them, eating them. I need a regular potato fix. I don’t know if it’s some distant Irish genetics in my blood or just that crispy baked potatoes are one of the …

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Categories Container growing, potatoes, Raised beds, Spring, Vegetable beds

End of month view: February 2014

27 February 2014

It’s amazing what a difference 28 days makes in the garden. Since the end of January the amount of light coming into the garden has doubled, and the middle veg bed is now getting full light during part of the …

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Categories Cornus Border, End of month view, Herb Border, Strawberry Border, Vegetable beds

Crop rotations for the vegetable beds

14 August 20202 February 2014

It’s February, it’s sunny, at the moment anyway, and I finally feel like the growing season has begun. So I thought it was time to work out what vegetables I plan on growing, and plan the vegetable bed rotations. Garden …

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Categories back garden, crop rotation, Vegetable beds

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