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PINK
PINK I love you The colour pink – just about every shade of PINK -I have recently read a blog post where someone suffering from Cancer was saying they now no longer really love the colour as it is the official Breast Cancer colour and they felt that the femininity of the colour and all we generally associate with this colour is nothing like Cancer and how it made her feel. While I can hear where she is coming from and totally respect what she says – I hope that I don’t every feel like that about PINK – especially as at the moment it seems like everything I buy…
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Ideas For Planting Biennials 22
Pencilled in to my seed planting diary June 21st Summer Solstice – Biennials are sown usually end of June-ish and should flower the following year. I am going to try sowing these in the soil blockers and Lupins I just love Lupins and I have too many seeds already really but I am going to order more – what is they say to plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow… So I have PinkFairy Sunrise (these are annual so I will not sow these now but spring to flower in the summer) I am going to order and sow in June The Governor (Navy Blue) Mixture of all the…
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Allotment Update
So as the weather warms up I feel like I can finally spend more time down at the allotment – its not that you can’t go in the cold! HA or wet! HA its just that I really really can’t do cold mainly – wet is ok if its warm (doesn’t happen really in the UK, warm rain… ummm). In the bed below I have nigella and delphiniums Here I have Carnations and statice white in the small cell tray and then apricot in the round pots. The beds are wooden sided – made from dismantled pallets – they are 1m wide by 2m long the base is cardboard in…
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Dahlia Order
All the pictures of Dahlias are ones that I ordered in a crazy mad shopping spree (retail therapy) – by the time I ordered them it was basically the end of ordering season so we will see how they are… the prices were just too good to walk click past and I went and bought too many for me really. Anyway scroll down to see what I ordered and I will hopefully photograph some of my own as and when they flower and see how they turn out. The above 2 photos are how the tubers arrived – some are smaller and some bigger… they all have an eye which…
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Mid May Thoughts
I am playing catch up BIG TIME – I didn’t autumn sow this year/last year… 2021 because my Autumn sow 2020 left me feeling huge over whelm both while sowing and then in the spring when supposed to be ‘bumping up‘ most of the negative feelings came from the house move we had to do – it wasn’t my choice and really wasn’t a happy experience. So Autumn 2021 the decision was made not to autumn sow – I purchased seeds and basically got myself somewhat ready for an Amazing spring sow – with the idea of succession sowing – limited seeds / flowers not in numbers as in plant…
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March – mid
This is about the third post I have written for March – Its been a funny old month and every time I have written something – life has thrown a curve ball and not really made what I have written relevant… So… I am running very behind on all the Autumn and Early Spring grow alongs – the seeds are very few and far between… and of course this year with the allotment I have a ton of space to put everyting… WHY AM I BEHIND… This mainly runs to my health – I was diagnosed in Feb with Low Thyroid (I will write about this in a separate section…
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Allotment
Actually it appears that this is maybe the first post about the allotment… – I think I need to go back over some posts and see if and what I have mentioned about it before. I am back dating this in the timeline of the blog so it fits better (but I am actually writing it end of May! Opps) But to start… It is very slow but I love it and it is shaping up just the way I want it 🙂 x I have had a few wobbles – not all but a vast majority grow veg and I am using it as a flower space. Initially it…
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Feeling Stacked Against
Sometimes you just feel like the odds are stacked against you – feeling a little like this tonight… Health a little bit wobbly… Weather – bloody dreadful – gales / storms / torrential rain and it just seems to keep going… I am super fortunate – my health issues are being sorted and not that scary… The weather will pass – so many people have lost so much – its difficult to comprehend how it must feel… But it is easy I think to sometimes ‘oh pull it together your life is cushy – you are lucky’ (I am not really a believer in luck like that – I think…
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General Jan 2022
My seed sowing list is coming together nicely for this coming year – I feel a lot less overwhelmed and way more in control and confident – not that my haul will be better or anything like that but – I have learnt so much over the last 12 months – mainly just relax enjoy what you do I mean this sounds so obvious doesn’t it especially when its a hobby!!! But I don’t think lots of us really do. So here are a list so far of the seeds etc… I want to sow 2022 – I am sure it will change over time – well it already has…
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January Sweet Pea Sowing 2022
Sweet Peas Yes again! So every year I say NO I am crap at growing Sweet peas and every year I cant resist in sowing them -they have this hold over me… I have ordered Swan Cottage Flower Mix – that was all I was going to grow but… now I am wondering if to add a few more… ummmmm since I draft wrote this and posted it – I have ordered from Roger Parsons… if you look at my Sweet Peas post from 2021 I have more information on there… I am also closely following @thesweetpeaman on Instagram for thought and advice on how he grows his. (There is…