What on earth is ‘earthing up’?
As I greeted my emerging potato plants with glee a month or so ago, I wondered about the whole earthing up business. What’s it all for?...
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Talking to Gail about her springtime woodland pathway
Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
Wildflowers at Langdon
Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...
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- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Springtime here we come!
Oh yes – this is VERY welcome. Warmer and finally, drier. Our boggy, saturated ground is at last getting a breather – and so are we. It’s...
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Soggy Fragments
My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...
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- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
Willows and Wilding
A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...
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- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
Getting along with rabbits and moles
We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...
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- Nov 24, 2020
- 4 min
Composting success and ‘No Dig’ beds
My very own home-made compost – PROUD! Last Friday I had such a brilliant afternoon. On a whim I decided it was time to empty out the...
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- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
New veggie plot
We’ve finally finished the raised beds we’ve been working on – they’re all filled with many barrow-loads of wonderful organic stuff,...
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- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Leaf Mould
Last week I had my first go at making leaf mould. Well, when I say ‘making’, that’s a bit of a grand claim, because basically all I did...
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