The Portable Garden

8 September 2022

Wrapping up the portable garden

Now that we have a date from the insurance company and we know what day we’ll be moving house, we’re starting to dismantle things. And that includes the portable garden. We had only just got into the swing of our new portable garden when 2 things happened: The UK officially went into drought We finally found a lovely bungalow to...

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16 June 2022

The portable garden this week: 16 June 2022

The weedkiller isn’t only not working, it’s not even coming close. I know that our gravel patch isn’t strictly part of the portable garden, but it is part of the garden and I’d still like it to look nice. But the weedkiller isn’t working. The poet did say he’d give it another go at the weekend, but he’s still recovering...

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26 May 2022

The portable garden this week: 26 May 2022

More excitement in the garden this week as the first of the strawberries started to show. We think every one of the strawberry plants will fruit again this year. They’re getting on a bit now, so it might be their last year. That means any runners that shoot off this year need to be captured and pegged down, so we have...

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19 May 2022

The portable garden this week: 19 May 2022

Exciting news this week. The tomato plants finally arrived after weeks and weeks of waiting. This was a collection I ordered from a magazine, but now they are here, we think we might have got them cheaper elsewhere. Much cheaper. The image below shows how big the plug plants are when compared to a regular-sized stylus. They really are tiny,...

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12 May 2022

The portable garden this week: 12 May 2022

While the poet did fit in 30 minutes to cut the front lawns on Saturday, we didn’t get into the garden again at the weekend beyond that. There wasn’t anything to do, other than cut the hedges. But as he’d already filled the green bin with grass cuttings, we didn’t have anywhere to put the trimmings anyway. Saying that, we...

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5 May 2022

The portable garden this week: 5 May 2022

No, this isn’t one of our cornflowers, but I hope we have some of these soon. Nothing to report from the portable garden this week, other than that the cornflower and calendula seeds in the pot at the front have sprouted. The sunflower seedlings at the back are all doing well, and so are the rescued strawberries. We had a...

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28 April 2022

The portable garden this week: 28 April 2022

Note: If any of the pictures are too small on your hand-held device, try turning the device on its side. It was a shorter weekend just gone, 2 days instead of 4, and we spent one of them down in the midlands. The weather was dry, but not as nice as it has been recently. Following the long drive on...

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21 April 2022

The portable garden this week: 21 April 2022

Note: If any of the pictures are too small on your hand-held device, try turning the device on its side. Several ducks lined up in a row this week: I finished all of my work so could take the weekend off It was a 4-day bank holiday weekend The weather was nice, for a change This meant we were able...

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14 April 2022

The portable garden this week: 14 April 2022

The weekend just gone was all about getting things ready. It’s a big, open, boring garden that’s covered with gravel and flanked by hedges. There’s a massive garage at one end, and the house at the other, both painted white. The gravel was poorly applied before our time. There’s no liner underneath it to help prevent the weeds from coming...

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10 April 2022

We’ve been at this house for almost 2 years and we’ve yet to do anything with the garden. This is for 2 reasons: We didn’t know how long we’d be staying here It’s not really a very nice garden We did get a quote to make it nice, for us, but that came back at around the £2,250-mark, just for...

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