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Category: Garden

Breaking

26. February 2015 PiaChit Chat

..in the new loom, the reign of cold and dark, possibly my back!

This is what my fix for not having a second warp beam looks like (the clamps are temporary – I broke the cordless drill. They’re all my personal clamps btw, the big iron ones I inherited from my grandad).

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Not a proper winter

6. December 2014 PiaChit Chat

Look what I spotted in the garden today…

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#strawberries in december #warmwinter

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Perhaps winter

1. December 2014 PiaAcid Dyeing

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First winter day, and a promise of, but not quite real frost at least in this garden. It’s possible that I simply got out of bed too late, though! Uglemor has taken care of that bit of December greeting for me. 😉

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Little green wonders: Carrots

1. November 2014 PiaChit Chat

I remember sowing some carrots this summer, but then the dry, hot weather, my back and other issues, my laissez-faire attitude about growing what can grow and not spend too much paid water, simply made me forget because for a long time nothing much happened. And we all know how thistles and such will thrive under any weather conditions, so I’d given up on them.

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Little green wonders: Potatoes

19. September 2014 PiaChit Chat

Just a promised update on those baking potatoes that I threw in the manure/compost no-dig beds and which have produced such and abundance of leaves over the summer, no water, no care at all.

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