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Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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Tag: growing strawberries

An odd-job gardening sort of weekend

21st Apr 2025 leyfarmcottages

With Good Friday taken up with our final Easter holidays same-day changeover, we spent most of the remaining weekend days outdoors catching up on odd

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When you go down to the woods today…

30th Mar 2025 leyfarmcottages

This weekend we built and treated a new picnic bench for our guests to use in the wood, so we now have seating for eight

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Of farmhouse roofs and rafters

2nd Jul 2023 leyfarmcottages

This week our builders started on the farmhouse. The work planned is far simpler than the other buildings – replace the asbestos tiles with solar

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Strawberry drainpipes

14th Nov 2021 leyfarmcottages

Back in London, I used to spend hours looking through Pinterest for ideas on vertical gardens – trying to make the most of the space we

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