I had great plans for today, I was going to get up early and spend the day marking out my beds in my allotment and installing my netting. I have had a very busy week and have been unable to get to my plot to do some proper work on it so I was very […]
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I love food. It might sound like a ridiculous statement, but I do, I love food. To me, food is not just that which sustains me but something which should be enjoyed. I seem to have developed a serious passion for food in the past few years, I was much more of a fussy eater
For the past few weeks I’ve been planning my allotment, from deciding what plants to grow to what type of beds to use, I’ve been having great fun planning. I’m beginning to think it’s one of the most fun aspects of gardening, there’s no back-breaking digging, no dirt permanently lodged under my fingernails, no nettle stings (though
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When I was eight, my school class had a substitute teacher for three weeks. They were the best three weeks of the school year as she spent the whole time teaching us songs and showing us episodes of the muppets. The reason I tell you this is she taught us a song by John Denver,
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Seeds. They’re the source, of life, of ideas, of plants, of trees, of my madness, of days spent hopefully watching pots on a windowsill praying for instant germination. I seem to have spent all week thinking about seeds, buying seeds, organising seeds, sowing seeds, watering seeds, willing seeds to grow. In ten days, I’ll be taking
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