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Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Flowers of the Field

Posted in Allotments on Jun 24th, 2008


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The First of the Mohicans

Posted in Allotments on Jun 21st, 2008

Here it is but now what do I do with it?

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Brilliant - The Sprouts Are In

Posted in Allotments on Jun 19th, 2008

This afternoon we planted the brussell sprouts, Brilliant, now we need a bit of gentle rain to water them in. Rob fixed up the cage we built for them last year and it looks fit to face the winter now.
We emptied out one of the potato bags, Rocket I think, and half of them are bubbling […]

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I Spotted a Roaming Zebra

Posted in Allotments on Jun 13th, 2008

 
No. The circus hasn’t come to town. For a week I have been trying off and on to find the site of the weblog of the young couple who were the last to take on a plot at Bob’s Coppice. Then I had a flash of inspiration, if they had seen our weblog then their […]

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Surprise Surprise

Posted in Allotments on Jun 11th, 2008

Although the breeding season should only go from February to May Jemima is once again nest building and has two eggs in there already. I hope for their sake that they have at least one success this time.
We ate our first new potatoes last Sunday. It was the white pot, the first I planted up […]

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Strawberry Time

Posted in Allotments on Jun 5th, 2008

Here comes the sun and here come the strawberries. We had quite a poor crop last year but this year we have an abundance of fruit so if we can beat the slugs in the race to harvest we should have enough to eat, preserve and give away. yummy….
A disappointing time for Puddles and Jemima […]

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