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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The portable garden
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
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