Planted seven rows of nine plants with lots of manure.
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Taken with a mobile phone so a bit blurry: it has its own idea about where the focus should be set.
Red Admiral – It’s hard to snap them landed, they dart about so much
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Finally got around to planting four rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece. Got two packs of 20 tubers each from Sycamore Trading on Amazon.
Also planted 100 Sturon onion sets in five rows
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Finally got around to planting 4 rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece.
Also planted 100 Sturon onion sets in five rows
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We have extended our little birch copse with two Himalayan White Birch trees Betula utitis var. jacquemontii. They are quite mature standards so it remains to be seen whether they will take an thrive. We have done all the right things: lots of Rootgrow; a big hole, back-filled with compost rich soil mixture, lots of water.
As a counterpoint to the white-barked birch we put in a black-barked flowering cherry (well ornamental plum) Prunus cerasifera var.
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Shed garden Our “front” garden is really just a utility space, used for the washing line and occasional overflow parking. It is currently rough weedy grass and the project is to turn it into a wildflower meadow.
A key feature of wildflower meadows is low soil fertility. The soil here didn’t start off too good, so I have cut the grass closely and removed the cuttings a few times, resulting in the brown patches in the picture.
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Our Cornish First Early potatoes, actually Pentland Javelin, are ready. We had a meal of them on Saturday 23rd
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Comparing Oct 2013 to May 2015 Oct 2015 May 2015 Even allowing for differences in photo technique you can see how the hedge has thickened up over 18 months.
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Took days clearing the bank then about an hour to plant eight metres of boarder.
Boarder with both collections Coastal Collection 1 Armeria maritima ‘Splendens Perfecta’
2 Santolina chamaecyparissus
3 Kniphofia ‘Little Maid’
4 Anthemis cupaniana
5 Agapanthus ‘Rosewarne’
6 Argyranthemum ‘Cornish Gold’
7 Lavandula intermedia ‘Grosso’
8 Centranthus ruber ‘Albus’
9 Leucanthemum ‘Wirral Supreme’
10 Buddleja globosa
Cornish Exotic 1 Crinum powellii
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The Magnolia Stellata is out!
March 31. So about 3 weeks late
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