A day off on Friday coincided with good weather – which was lucky as we have a LOT of gardening jobs to do!! Having put
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What happened to our lawns??
Autumn, I’m told, is the best time of year to repair grass; and seeing as though John’s first efforts in Spring only included the front and back lawns, it was inevitable
Rain paused outside play…
We’d set aside last weekend to dig up a heavily- weeded area and plant it with bulbs… but the rain was so heavy on Saturday that when we
Thirty million little helpers
Yesterday saw the start of this year’s nematodes treatment in the orchard – ten million in each packet. We applied our first treatment last year after
Test and learn – our kitchen garden
Ten years with a tiny London-terrace garden meant we spent a lot of that time trying to work out how to make the most of the space we had, with homemade vertical planter
Slowly getting through the outside odd jobs
The last few weeks have mostly been filled with first-time visits from family and friends, and so we’ve only managed to squeeze a couple of
Ley Farm Cottages 