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Did the last 18 months really fly by seemingly in the blink of an eye?Did my ideas hatch into something resembling a vegetable patch?Here's a selection of pics from last year's growing season to put you in the picture..

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We are going to the USA on Tuesday en famille to stay with Jo's brother and his family. The men are staying for eight days and the women and children for an extra week - am I going to find courgette footballs when I return?With such a proliferation of fruit, I am hoping that a couple of footballs won't matter too much! We should still be able to harvest some at the perfect size....

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What a treat just before we go away on holiday! The Build-a-Ball cage and netting was a sound investment, especially as they can be re-used year after year.

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Taken nearly a week ago now. Our first baby salad leaves were delicious. We have had three meals with homegrown salad this week and I have also enjoyed the leaves in my lunchtime sandwiches! I have planted 6 more rows of these delicious greens, using 6 different varieties and must remember to continue to plant little and often.With the recent heavy rain, I am finding it a bit of a chore to wash

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I have a dilemma.Lollies. I love lollies.So much so that they started to impact excessively on our weekly shopping bill and the number of wrappers that I was throwing away began to hurt my green credentials. I was happily munching through 2 a day, recycling the boxes they came in by either sticking them in the wormery, the compost bins or the recycling bin and washing and using the sticks as

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A seemingly long winter of digging and construction at OCG and a further wait for seeds to germinate before planting out has finally started to pay off.Ably assisted by under-gardener, Milly!My single row pea experiment seems to have worked in spite of this horrible-looking wormy thing that did for half the seeds before they had a chance to germinate. I have searched the hinterweb trying to

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Yikes! It has been a while since my last post to say the very least. I got a headache on the afternoon of my last post. It hurt a lot and then it hurt some more and stayed with me until an operation in April stopped it in its tracks. I spent 8 worrying days in hospital during this time and lost a lot of weight (I didn't have a lot to lose!) but eventually got my allotted MRI slot which was the

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Thank you to Welsh Girl for the link to Lidl earlier in the week! This morning, I bought 2 blackcurrant bushes, 2 redcurrant bushes, 1 blackberry bush/bramble and a golden delicious apple tree. I have never grown fruit before (or much of anything come to think of it!) so I'm pretty chuffed with my small collection. What did I pay for this array of fruity treats?....£8.94!! Bobby bargains don't

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We bought The Corner House at the end of April 2006. We jumped from 3 bedrooms to 5 but more importantly, from a postage stamp garden to one that is quite substantial for uphill Lincoln. I took it upon myself to dig over a small corner of the garden in our first few weeks here in order to at least get something growing for the table.I always knew that I had a secret hankering for growing veg but

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The Winter is drawing to a close. I have been hard at work to prepare a corner of our city garden for our first foray into organic veg growing. A brief intro is in order for post no.1. Your narrator will be mostly me, Wolfie, a 34 year old (before my time I am told!) husband to, Wolfwoman (37), father to two Wolverines, Emily (3) and Thomas (19months). We live on a busy road just outside the

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