tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50824335783557251022024-03-18T03:03:15.565+00:00The Good Life - Well Maybe!A blog about a vegetable patch that became a flower cutting patch Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-58563429641775952412020-07-19T09:44:00.000+01:002020-07-19T09:44:38.506+01:00Its getting close to peak flowering Summer continues and its been fairly glorious here . Lots of sunshine but not a lot of rain, never mind, as we have the stream in the garden, water is never a problem here.<br />
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The patch has grown into a thing of beauty, even if I say so myself. the flowers are all doing their best to put on a fabulous display, and in the last week or so the Dahlia have started to arrive. Not many at the moment but in the next couple of weeks I will not know what to do with them all .<br />
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My flowers are all grown with a purpose, to be cut and given away, and I have done that a lot in the last few weeks, with various birthdays, anniversaries and other events in my friendship circle, We have had a 60th birthday and a Pearl wedding anniversary in the last week in this house. So no more waffling on, here are a selection of the cut flowers this July.<br />
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<br />Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-67355662197685324902020-04-25T10:59:00.000+01:002020-04-25T11:01:03.680+01:00Lockdown Gardening <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its been quite a while since I wrote a blog. To be honest, my garden is so well established now that I rarely have anything new to write about. I did promise, at the very start of my blog back in 2012 that I wouldn't be repeating myself, and I have managed to stick to that pretty much .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are all living in strange times. Coronavirus is wreaking a path of destruction around the world and it has touched many including my family. My brother caught it early doors and was very ill with Covid19 and then Pneumonia. He lives alone in a studio apartment with no garden and as soon as he had won his battle we had him come here to live with us for the duration. To see what it can do to a fit and healthy 55 year old is stunning . I am determined to stay out of that bugs way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This enforced stay at home has for me been brilliant. It has made me realise that I was doing too much before this happened, volunteering, lots of clubs and events and generally never around. Now I have had time to sit and look at my garden and think about a few changes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blog started as the story of me building a vegetable garden. As it developed I realised, I didn't actually enjoy growing veg that much and although what I produced was lovely I never really got the knack of succession sowing and the like, the battle with bugs and insects was also depressing, so I switched to growing flowers, for cutting. I really found my happy place. I met my lovely friend Georgie at <a href="http://www.commonfarmflowers.com/" target="_blank">Common Farm Flowers</a> and the deal was sealed, no more veg in my patch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My love of flowers has meant lots of research and I am now completely self sufficient all year round. No shop bought flowers here, unless very occasionally a friend gives them to me, but most know now that I am not a fan of imported flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started with annuals but soon learned that there are so many gorgeous flowering perennial plants that I didn't need to spend ages growing seedlings every year. Most of my beds are now full of perennials but I still seem to have a greenhouse full of seedlings every spring. Mostly to be given away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been steering as many people as possible to all the independent nurseries I follow on twitter and Facebook and encouraging people to buy nice plants that will last them years. I have been thrilled to see lots of these nurseries on twitter telling how their business are so busy with mail order plants and seeds. Ben at <a href="http://higgledygarden.com/">Higgledygarden.com</a> has had to close his shop several times to catch up and others like <a href="https://www.peternyssen.com/" target="_blank">Peter Nyssen</a>, <a href="https://www.bluebellcottage.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bluebell Cottage Garden</a>, <a href="https://www.hardysplants.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hardys Cottage Garden</a>, and many others seem to be keeping their business going. I really hope they all come out the other side and get a well earned rest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning , Its been a long while since I wrote anything here but its nice to be back . When I started this blog I aways said, I would only write an entry when I had something new to tell you. Well I have , but first a quick catch up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2018 was the a mixed year here in the UK, late February bought us the beast from the east and even our lovely little protected garden on the South coast succumbed to the snow and frost. It took ages to warm up again and I was convinced it was not going to be a good year in the garden. How wrong I was, we then had the hottest summer on record and goodness did the flowers love it, I was cutting daily and was struggling to even give flowers away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway sometime late last year I saw on Twitter that <a href="https://nationaldahliacollection.co.uk/" target="_blank">The National Dahlia Collection </a> based in Cornwall were looking for people to trial dahlias and write about them. Well never one to miss the chance of a few free plants I replied , but never heard anything back. Oh well never mind. I got on with growing my own fabulous dahlias and tweeting about them as <a href="https://twitter.com/Lorraines_Veg" target="_blank">@Lorraines_Veg </a> . I have always loved dahlias but never had room to grow them until we moved here. My love of them was re invigorated when I first went to <a href="https://www.commonfarmflowers.com/" target="_blank">Common Farm Flowers </a>back in 2013. I wrote about that visit on my blog entitled <a href="http://lorrainesvegpatch.blogspot.com/2013/10/blooming-marvellous.html" target="_blank">Blooming Marvellous</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A ring of the doorbell late yesterday afternoon, and there was the postie handing me a box, slightly bemused, I took it and then noticed the label on the top. Hurrah!! dahlia tubers had arrived. Now normally it is exciting opening a box when you know what is inside, when you have no idea its even better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First out the box was Garden Wonder , This is as a dwarf variety and is red. (All the pictures that follow are credited to <a href="https://nationaldahliacollection.co.uk/" target="_blank">The National Dahlia Collection</a> Website)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think you will agree a very nice selection of flowers. I am also quite pleased they are all smaller varieties, as the first thing that crossed my mind was, where am I going to plant them. I already have about 10 dahlia plants on the cutting patch and over the winter have ordered another 6 so with these as well its going to look fabulous . I have decided I am going to put all these in pots as they can be moved around as they grow, into suitable spots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also really please with the colours and am crossing my fingers they will be out in late July as the <a href="https://www.thewi.org.uk/" target="_blank">WI</a> flower competition at the <a href="https://www.newforestshow.co.uk/" target="_blank">New Forest Show</a> this year is entitled Hot and Spicy so I think I will have some perfect flowers for my entry here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as thing start to happen with the flowers I will post again so you can see how my growing season goes . If you click on the pictures it will take you to the appropriate page on the collection's website so you can find out more . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am lucky enough to have had a wonderful holiday in Florida in the last couple of weeks. Before I went, the weather was ok but it seemed that the garden was running out of steam. There were lots of buds but I was not expecting much to happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How wrong was I, very early this year, I actually thought about making sure I had flowers to cover all of the year if possible, and after a bit of research decided Chrysanthemums were the flower for me. Despite the fact that they are a supermarket staple, I still like them, always cheery and colourful. I found a great supplier and bought a lovely selection of late flowering plants. They have been pretty scruffy all summer and very straggly, I didn't hold out much hope for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wrong again. They are now flowering and they are glorious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is still one more very exotic one to flower, it has buds so I am hopeful I will certainly be buying more in the spring to fill the bed. If you are interested I got them from <a href="http://www.chrysanthemumsdirect.co.uk/">www.chrysanthemumsdirect.co.uk</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are regular reader of my blog, you will know that over time, my garden has evolved from a huge veg patch to a space that is now full of beds planted with flowers, specifically for cutting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Several years after starting the patch I realised that it was actually a lot of very hard work, digging spuds and saving everything else from slugs, snail, caterpillars and various other crawly things . My garden evolved and even more so this year as I removed all the original raised beds and replaced them with new smaller ones. I also planted lots of perennial plants to make life easier again. Its not that I am lazy, far from it, but I have managed to hurt my back and now find it hard to spend a full day outside doing heavy work. Flowers are the way ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the summer started we were hit with cold wet weather and the plants were not growing well. I was struggling to cut 3 or vases a week and the garden looked empty. Things started to look up in late July and there were more flowers coming into the house and going to neighbours, but the patch still looked a bit empty and colourless. Thats the trouble with cutting, there is nothing left outside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I need not of worried for long. We went on holiday at the beginning of August and I left the care of the tomatoes in the greenhouse to my neighbour, and the flower beds to the automatic sprinkler system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we came home the patch had come to life, its actually quite beautiful and now I am left wandering if perhaps I should not cut everything but leave some behind. What do you think? this is what it looks like today in the glorious south coast sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lot of these are new flowers to me, that I have not grown before and also perennial so they will come year after year. I have though, realised that some are in completely the wrong place so there will be a bit of plant moving over the winter. I bought quite a few unusual chrysanthemums (top left), and these are just starting to flower, along with rudbeckia (bottom left) and echinacia (top right). I am also now totally in love with Astrantia (bottom right) and have 3 different colours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am not going to stop cutting flowers for the house, but might leave a lot more to enjoy outside as well . Here are selection of posies made with flowers cut from the garden yesterday.</span> </div>
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Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-26822783561707011822017-06-14T11:13:00.001+01:002017-06-14T11:13:41.134+01:00The flowers are back <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been picking the odd posy for the last few weeks but today I managed two buckets full with more ready tomorrow. My first rose of the season and my first ever Helichrysum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lots more to come in the next few weeks and also courgettes are on the way along with tomato's .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The weather seems to finally be sorting itself out so hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy the lovely warm long days . </span><br />
<br />Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-63701556559408363052017-06-03T12:57:00.000+01:002017-06-03T12:57:51.345+01:00My Garden Right Now<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week was the Chelsea flower show, I am sure if you were anywhere near a TV you would have seen all the show gardens and displays in the huge marquee. As a gardener I know it has a benefit to us all in getting new people involved and introducing us all to lovely new plants and gadgets we can use. I though, prefer real gardens, not show ones, built with a huge budget and moved on somewhere else after the show is over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earlier this year a fellow blogger <a href="http://vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/mygardenrightnow-heading-into-summer.html" target="_blank">Michelle Chapman</a> had a one day project where she invited people to take a picture of their own garden, or something in it, and post it on social media using the hashtags #mygardenrightnow . It was a huge success and Michelle was encouraged to enlarge the project and register it as a Chelsea Fringe event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So today here is my entry for the Chelsea Fringe 2017 my garden right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The garden is finally looking pretty, lots of odd flowers about so I decided to photograph them today. The point was to practice for a Chelsea Fringe event I am planning on taking part in at the weekend called #mygardenrightnow. If you want to find out more about it have a look at the <a href="http://www.chelseafringe.com/event/mygardenrightnow/2017-06-03/" target="_blank">Chelsea fringe</a> webpage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here is my garden today .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nice basic flowers that look good in a vase. Last autumn I was tempted by a bulb producer, <a href="http://www.peternyssen.com/" target="_blank">Peter Nyssen</a> to invest in some fancy ones. I didn't buy a lot as I wanted to wait and see how they turned out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well safe to say over the last few days they have begun to flowers and I am totally and utterly smitten. The flowers are just gorgeous and I will be investing in loads more this autumn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2016 was an odd year in the patch for various reasons. For the first time since I started my garden, I have had a lot of trouble trying to get things to grow, trays of various seeds failed to produce anything in the spring and the fact that it was so cold and wet didn't help. Broad beans took 3 attempts, french beans the same, Zinnias, which I have never had any trouble with 4 goes and the final batch have produced about 6 very sorry looking plants. I was beginning to despair that I would end up with nothing, then finally in July it warmed up a bit and things began to grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of the disappointment and work which came to nothing, has made me rethink how I use my patch and I have come to a decision.. I started the garden with a view to growing as much as our own veg as possible, but since then, I got myself mixed up with a very lovely group of flower growers and I find that they have become my first love. With this in mind and the fact that last summer I hurt my back quite badly and have had a lot of trouble keeping on top of things, I have decided to turn all but 2 of my bed over the growing flowers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am currently enjoying researching as many perennial flowery varieties that I can find, that I know will give me the cut flowers that I adore. I also have already acquired a nice selection of Dahlia and have chosen 4 lovely roses from David Austen The beds will be a lot more organised than in previous years with all the right sizes planted together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am still planning on cutting them though. This isn't going to be a nice garden to look at and not enjoy the spoils of. I will still grow a bit of veg in the remaining two beds but only easy stuff that can look after itself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The original raised beds that we made from old scaffold boards are all rotten through </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> so over the winter I have been replacing them . This also gives me the opportunity to make them a bit smaller as the first time round, despite Jim's advice , I made them too big and the middle of each bed was always wasted as I couldn't reach it. This is how the patch looked when it was originally designed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And finished today after a huge amount of work, all by me, I have built and put in place 10 new beds. The path between each bed has been made narrower as they were previously too wide and wasted precious growing space . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rotten, but now replaced by these lovely sturdy beds I got from <a href="https://www.harrodhorticultural.com/" target="_blank">Harrod Horticultural </a>. They all need a nice layer of compost and I have two tons of topsoil being delivered on Tuesday to fill them right up </span></div>
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Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-4084340496998598502016-05-17T17:18:00.000+01:002016-05-17T17:18:34.824+01:00Here is one I made earlier! <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Late last year another themed "Great British" Tv show began to air on BBC2 and I was hooked. This time it was a group of amateur potters making pots and plates and all manner of things against the clock and I began to wonder if I was able to make anything from clay? It appears that a lot of other people had the same idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I rang the local adult education centre and enquired about pottery classes, the woman on the phone groaned and said "I suppose you watched that TV show" "Yes" I replied.. Well it seemed the demand was so high for pottery class they added an extra two a week. So January saw me turn up with 9 other novice potters to start learning . I must say, I love it. Not as much as my garden, but I really look forward to Monday mornings, and not a lot of people do. I have, over the past few months produce a variety of wonky, badly glazed items, mostly capable of holding very little. But then I had a light bulb moment, why not make a vase to hold my own home grown flowers , so I did. I know it leans a little to the left but I am really pleased with how it turned out .</span></div>
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Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-36271714046344680772016-04-29T15:35:00.000+01:002016-04-29T15:35:15.485+01:00The ever-changing Spanish bush and other matters. <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In other matters, Freda has spent the winter in the garage being fettled.. She is now looking and sounding wonderful so a couple of weeks ago she was out for her first Sunday run of the season. We entered the Triumph New Forest Run and had a glorious day in the sunshine with lots of other likeminded people, driving around the beautiful New Forest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is something about gardening and growing plants that makes me feel good.. I stand in my greenhouse looking at all the tiny seedlings , which later in the summer will bring me flowers, vegetables and smiles and it makes me happy. Don't worry I haven't been on the Prosecco its just spring and I am loving being back in the garden again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every day now there is something to do, seeds to sow, plants that need a bigger pot or , this week, huge piles of broken branches from our neighbours Oak trees to be picked up off my beds and paths. Storm Kate blew through on Monday night but we had very little damage at all. My piles of plastic pots were scattered and my sweet pea tower was leaning at a very odd angle, but that was it. The poor clifftop shelter didn't fair as well. It is directly in line with The Needles, as you can see and there was a 105mph wind recorded. I do hope they replace it as it is nice spot to watch the world go by whilst eating ice-cream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The cutting beds are full to bursting with Paper Whites. Some of you may have been recipients of flowers from these actual bulbs if you have ever bought flowers from Georgie at Common Farm Flowers. I traded a days weeding last summer for a huge bag of bulbs she no longer needed. They are popping up all over the place here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And never fear, if there is a shortage of tomatoes this coming summer, I think I have grown enough plants to feed most of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Its looking like another lovely day tomorrow so more seeds to sow and more happy hours to spend in the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It may be Mothers Day here in the UK but the Pennington Patch is still in need of attention. This morning we convened a work party to try and dig over the last bed with clumpy grass in it. The last two weeks, considerable progress has been made , without my help I might add, so this morning I set of bright and early to try and do a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we took it over, the land was overgrown, bramble ridden and covered in everyone else's rubbish but we have slowly turned it around and I think today we may have got to the point where we can start to think about planting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This bed was previously half covered in bramble and overgrown bushes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is our bonus bed as we didn't even know it was there, so we are now planning on putting a bit of veg in here, something we hadn't previously planned for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cutting patch has been turned over beautifully .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so today the primary objective was to finish turning the soft fruit bed and picking out the horrible couch grass roots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It took a couple of hours but finally we had done it, all dug over and ready for the next stage. In fact there was enough time for me to start digging out even more bramble root along the boundary with our neighbours gardens. I hope they are pleased to no longer have all sorts of overgrown stuff hanging into their gardens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And at the other end the ladies made a start on clearing another big overgrown area. We are hoping to put a shed in this space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The lovely bush we rescued from the huge bramble area seems to be grateful and has grown leaves and blossom, we have no idea what it is but think it may be a fruit bush of some sort. Any Ideas? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The observant amongst you will have noticed that I have a great friend who owns a flower farm and I occasionally go and help her out on busy days. Those of you with even more exceptional observation skills will have noted that this Sunday is Mothers Day, probably the busiest day in a florists calendar. So the combination of the two found me at 7am yesterday morning hoping in the car for the 60 mile trip to <a href="http://common farm flowers" target="_blank">Common Farm Flowers</a> in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset. 60 Miles isn't far on good dual carriageways but as I live in the country we don't have many of them, so it was B roads all the way, a very pleasant way to travel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I knew from several conversations in the previous week that this year was looking to be Georgie's best ever day for Mothers Day flowers and we were going to be working pretty hard. In anticipation of this, I was carrying supplies in the form of a large Lemon Drizzle cake, there is nothing better than a large mug of tea and a slice of cake to raise the spirits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The studio was full of buckets of the most beautiful Narcissi, Ranunculus and Tulips in all shades and loads of different sorts of greenery. Georgie, Sharon and Tessa were working hard to produce beautiful arrangements. Some were going as bouquets, some were smaller and being packed with jam jar's so the lucky recipient would have 3 Jam Jar posies to enjoy, and yet others were being packed with beautiful handmade chocolates, supplied by a local artisan chocolate business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a lovely day , and what made it even nicer is knowing that as I type this, lucky ladies up and down the UK are receiving their beautiful flowers from loving family members and I went some way to helping put that huge smile I know they will all have, on their face. I am paying the price today though, all that bending means I am as stiff as a board, never mind its getting me back in trim for the gardening season. Time to burn off some of that cake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile back in Barton, this morning, walking on the beach I noticed that a very large branch had got caught in the boulders of one of the breakwaters. It was standing upright looking like a tree, and it got me wandering where on earth it had come from, I would like to think it has washed across the atlantic from some exotic island in the Caribbean or from the shores of South America. Gibson and I sat looking at it with The Needles as a backdrop for a while contemplating its origins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After my paddle in the water, I wandered down to the veg patch and did a bit of clearing up. Very rewarding it was too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Perfect day in the garden. </span>Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-45912356158158976572016-02-03T19:38:00.003+00:002016-02-04T07:51:53.269+00:00Tarting up the Bed.. <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a very old friend who I don't see as often as I would like, who has a penchant for a tarted up bed. She does it by covering the said bed in literally dozens of cushions. Whenever I stay, I have to allow an extra 5 minutes at bedtime to remove all the cushions before I can get in. Next morning I have to try and put the puzzle back together again.. You know who you are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyway today I finally got around to tarting up my new raised bed. In a recent blog, I mentioned that for my birthday Jim had bought me a rather nice new raised bed from <a href="http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/?Aff=G005&gclid=CjwKEAiA58a1BRDw6Jan_PLapw8SJABJz-ZWN2Xrw40VWvClLhuMiKNOiAklww3rygLSxtr2cci9FBoCYkbw_wcB" target="_blank">Harrod Horticultural</a> to replace one of mine that was rotten. At the same time he also got me a cover for the bed to keep away creepy crawlies and flying bugs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And to finish off, no new photos of Gibson this week so heres an old one, a visit to the pub. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have great week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we made the move to Hampshire over 4 years ago, one of the many things that attracted us to this home was a very small stream that runs along the entire length of our boundary and through our front garden. Around here the name for a little bit of water like this is a "Bunny" and I have no idea why. This tiny little bunny joins another which then runs across the local golf club into the sea. It is populated by little fish and is regularly visited by a host of birds and other wildlife. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The bank had been rather unsympathetically landscaped, by which I mean a load of rocky soil had been dumped and held in place by railway sleepers. The soil and been left uncultivated and loads of very tussocky grass had taken hold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My neighbour and I decided we wanted to cheer it up a bit and so we are now in our 4th season of attempting to make it pretty. I think we are beginning to win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After consulting loads of people it seemed that one answer to getting rid of the grass was yellow rattle. This plant attacks the grass and leaves spaces for other plants to take hold. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The seeds were purchased and sprinkled liberally , now it was just a waiting game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over the past 3 summers the number of pretty little yellow plants has increased each spring and a gentle breeze once the flowers have died, leads to the rattle of the seeds in the pods as they are sprinkled for another year. I only ever bought 1 packet and it is really doing a good job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So this week I have been out wading in the water clearing away a few weeds and making sure there is plenty of space for the rattle to reappear soon. All the other plants that have finally seeded are beginning to re-grow. This is how it looks at the moment, Quite a difference I think you will agree. I have 5 tins of <a href="https://www.seedball.co.uk/" target="_blank">seedball</a> wildflowers ready to be sown in the spring , I can't wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And that leads me on to seeds. Its the time of year when gardeners start planning and buying the seasons plants and seeds. I am now the owner of a huge seed collection and taking a lead from Sarah who I met on twitter and then in real life in France a couple of years ago, I keep them in a rather lovely wine box. Yes we did drink the wine .. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course my addiction, means that I will probably end up buying loads of others as well, just to add to the box. Luckily we are off to France again soon and I will make sure we get at least one more box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So thats all for now, as its been so mild the daffodils in the lane have already started to flower which is very cheery.</span></div>
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Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-78277870809980028952016-01-18T17:24:00.000+00:002016-01-18T17:24:05.536+00:00The Pennington Patch<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of you are probably aware that I am a reasonably regular user of twitter. Mostly I use it to find and interact with gardeners and people who share my love of flowers. last summer in Barton I noticed that an area known as The Meadow had suddenly sprouted huge swathes of wildflowers. This couldn't have happened without a bit of help so I decided to find out who had done it . After a bit of research I was put in touch with a lady called Gill who, along with a load of local volunteers, spent most of 2015 sowing and maintaining wildflower meadows in Lymington and beyond. It wasn't long before I found myself helping as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Late last year Gill told me about a huge abandoned allotment she had acquired from New Forest District Council. Her plan is to turn half of it into an orchard and use the other half to grow flowers for cutting and , teach anyone who wants to learn, all about the joy of a jam jar posy. "Would I help" she asked. You don't have to guess my answer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may have noticed I said it was an abandoned allotment.. It hasn't been used for 5 years and is now a tufty grass and bramble filled patch. There was no way we would be easily able to dig it all, so on a particularly wet day in Mid December I met her and a few of her volunteers to peg down some huge sheets of black plastic to try and suppress the weeds. It was certainly extreme gardening I was wet all the way to skin level!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may be able to see at the far end of the plot is an area of scrub, bushes and bramble about 15 feet deep. It needed to come down to see what was under it and stop it invading into the growing area any further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So last Friday I asked Jim if he would mind coming along to help with his rather impressive collection of Stihl chainsaws and tree cutters. We loaded up the car, sat Gibson in the back and off we went. It was a gloriously sunny but very cold day, I had a bit of trouble taking pictures as I could only take them into the sun but hopefully you will be able to see what we did. The area that needed clearing appeared to have two very large bushes in the middle and were completely surrounded with brambles and weeds. Jim quickly started to make an impression, with Gill and her husband and Gibson and I on clearance duties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This time last year I posted an new entry for 2015 fully intending to keep up to date, and suddenly its 2016 and I failed miserably. I had a lot of other commitments last year which meant blogging fell off the "To Do List" but happily this year, I have handed on several desk bound jobs to others so maybe if I am lucky, I will feel inclined to write again. The final push to get back to blogging came last night when for reasons only known to him, Ben at <a href="http://higgledygarden.com/" target="_blank">Higgledygarden.com </a>started posting links on twitter to my old blog posts, much to my amazement, lots of people read them. So I suppose if people are interested, I will give it another go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The veg patch is 4 years old and technically it is only half a veg patch now, the other half has become a glorious year round (well almost) flower cutting patch. I love flowers and have learned, over the last couple of years at the apron strings of Georgie at <a href="http://commonfarmflowers.com/" target="_blank">Common Farm </a>, how to go about growing to cover almost the entire year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what did I do last year, well all the usual stuff but also a plant sale to raise funds for <a href="http://www.oakhavenhospice.co.uk/" target="_blank">Oakhaven Hospice </a>. The big job of the summer was to try and grow as many flowers as I could for my silver wedding party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It began well, with hundreds of seeds germinating, but sadly the very cold spring of 2015 slowed everything down and I didn't get as many as I wanted. The most successful were Sunflowers and Zinnias. These would normally flower in late summer, but by leaving them in posts in the greenhouse I was able to force them to flower early.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily being friends with a flower farmer has its perks These beauties arrived from Common Farm a day or so before the event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the beds were first built I was determined to have as much space as possible. The beds were therefore pretty big. I soon discovered that it had been a mistake to make them so big. A large area in the middle is unreachable without walking all over my carefully tended soil. I decided to split my huge bed into two smaller, more manageable one's. A quick search online and I found my favourite supplier of nice garden stuff had just what I needed and so without much fuss two new 6ft by 4ft raised beds were delivered by <a href="http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/" target="_blank">Harrod Horticultural </a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They were really easy to build and a day later one became two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally for this post the greenhouse was in need of some new glass at the end of the summer. Jim was strimming in the gate area of the patch and managed to kick up a couple of bits of gravel. You can guess what happened next . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello.. I am still here in case you were wondering. I must apologise for being an absent blogger for quite some months. There is a reason though. When I started this blog I always said I wouldn't write the same things over and over again. A garden though does exactly that, each spring, it comes to life and gives months of pleasure, and then come the winter, it goes back to sleep. I found myself last august with nothing new to write, or so I thought. Life in the garden carried on and I was so busy helping it along and enjoying it, I didn't get around to sharing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So its time to catch up. The most obvious piece of news to share is about the hens, Babs, Gerry and Margot. In the early summer all 3 started to look a little under the weather. I tried every potion and cure I could find, but sadly they all succumbed to something, I don't know what. They were happy hens and gave us lot of pleasure and loads and loads of eggs. I decided that I wouldn't have hens again, just because we were finding it difficult to get them minded when we wanted to go away. So it was time to do something with the now empty hen run. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided that with my new love of growing flowers, the space would be better used as a new raised bed, so this time, I splashed out and bought a ready made kit from <a href="http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/?Aff=G005&gclid=CjwKEAiA3IKmBRDFx-P_rLyt6QUSJACqiAN8pQF4bQtrF8lOFvtE9EyfacnjLIJYeF0B2INoErcbphoCLYbw_wcB" target="_blank">Harrod Horticultural </a> . We put the run and all the stuff associated with it, on <a href="https://www.freecycle.org/" target="_blank">Freecycle</a> and off it went to a nice family in the New Forest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Altogether it was a wonderful summer and I am hoping for the same again this year. In other news Freda enjoyed her summer immensly, I think the highlight was when our car club was allowed to park the cars on the grass street at<a href="http://www.bucklershard.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Bucklers Hard</a> in the Forest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and finally Gibson is doing really welll, we went away for a bit and he stayed with a relative who works for the <a href="http://rnli.org/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">RNLI</a> . He was lucky enough to go to London and spend the day at Tower Lifeboat station. The crew loved him and made him an honorary lifeboat dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you live in the UK, you don't need me to tell you we have been experiencing the best July since records began. Its amazing, the sunshine has meant that the garden has gone mad, stuff growing at rapid rates and prolifically. That is part of the reason there have been no blogs lately as I have been struggling to keep up, of course I have also been making the most of the weather and getting out and about having a wonderful summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So whats been growing, well all the usual stuff plus a few new things, so its mostly the new stuff I will write about today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found a nice recipe to roast them with some of my homegrown shallots and thyme, so thats what I did. I left them cooling in a bowl in the kitchen, and some time later wandered back to find this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If only I could persuade Jim to try them, they were delicious, but as you can see he has pretty strong views about beetroot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So other newbies in the garden include corn on the cob.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And a selection of unusual squash that I got from an American website. They are all growing really well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a baby Blue Hubbard Pumpkin, it could reach up to 40 lbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And this is a Custard Squash, they took a while to get going and the early ones all dropped off, but the plants seem to have got the hang of it now and are growing these perfect little things, they taste like courgette.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are a few pics of the summer staples, tomatoes and courgettes, so many I can't keep up. And the spud crop this year was the best yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And flowers, so many flowers, they are just glorious, I am running out of places to put them and people to give them too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have grown Zinnias this year for the first time and I think they are heading towards the top of my favourite plant list. Look at this beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And another beauty is my Mongolian Giant sunflower. I entered the 2014 challenge, run by the lads at the <a href="http://vegetablism.co.uk/" target="_blank">Vegetablism</a> blog . They sent me the seeds and left me to it. I planted all the giants but only two germinated and this is the bigger of the two. Its huge!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The stem is close to 8 feet now and the flower head is over a foot wide. I will definitely be growing these again, they look amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So thats about all from the garden, out and about its been perfect weather for an old British sports car, so we have been enjoying using her. This month our club run was to the historic village of <a href="http://www.bucklershard.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bucklers Hard</a> in the New Forest. Not really much of a run for us as its only up the road, but we went anyway, because we had been given permission to drive the cars onto the historic High Street. Not something that happens very often. I think you will agree that the cars looked amazing in this wonderful setting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are ever in the New Forest the village should be at the top of your list of places to visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally Gibson. He hasn't been on top form of late. At the beginning of July he developed a bit of a limp. He had an infected pad, and so two weeks of antibiotics followed. They didn't work, but the swelling went down enough to see he had something in his paw. That meant surgery, so he had it a couple of weeks ago. Its healing very slowly, he can't walk on anything other than grass, so he has been trapped in the garden. Hopefully this week he can get out and about again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Several dry weeks, warm and sunny as well, means that once again the veg patch is full of beautiful things to eat, look at and smell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I believe I may officially call myself a gardener. Touching a piece of wood, I must say that so far apart from the beetroot issues, nothing has gone wrong. Everything is growing in the right place and appears to be what I was expecting. No dwarf peas, instead colossal peas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If your not sure what it is, it is one of those bright orange fruits with a brown papery covering that you get on the side of your desert in swanky restaurants. Someone gave me the packet of seeds. They had received them free with a gardening magazine. they are very pretty and hopefully will taste good as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All of my chillies are growing very well, covered in fruits. This is the first plant with any of a reasonable size, it is a cayenne pepper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then the flowers. More than I know what to do with, I have been giving them away to friends and neighbours and even to a local bride who gave me a lovely donation to Oakhaven Hospice in return. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you remember, that last autumn I went over to see Georgie, at <a href="http://www.commonfarmflowers.com/" target="_blank">Common Farm Flowers</a> and she gave me some of the dahlias that she no longer needed. Apparently they were the wrong colour for this seasons brides. Well I am delighted with them. They have grown beautifully and are already flowering. personally I think the brides are missing out on some lovely flowers.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sunday was International Lonely Bouquet Day. A lady in Belgium started it several years ago as a way of encouraging florists and people who grow flowers to give some away to strangers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then I drove around sunday morning and left them for people to find. I have no idea who found them as no one has been in touch, but I know that 5 houses around here have a beautiful little posy of flowers from my garden and someone else, is having the chance to enjoy them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And finally. Last week was clean club night at our car club. Freda is not working at the moment so we couldn't take her, but we went along anyway. Here are a couple of the class winners from the evening, they are beautiful machines I think you will agree</span></div>
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<br />Lorraine Pullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471647053257519352noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082433578355725102.post-6794364010203508472014-06-14T20:13:00.000+01:002014-06-14T20:13:07.767+01:00What has happened to the veg? <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made a conscious decision when I start writing this blog over 2 years ago that I would only write when I had something different to say, this is my third season growing and to be honest, I am growing pretty much the same things and in the same way, so what would be the point of writing about them again? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been quietly, (well if you don't count the iPod playing at full blast all the time, through speakers, with my favourite 70's and 80's disco classics) getting on with the business of growing us some food. So far this year there has only been one problem, and that is with a new crop for me. Beetroot, or as Jim calls it "The food of the devil" . His mum was a school dinner lady and it appears that she always brought home leftovers for tea. Poor chap not only did he have to eat school dinners for lunch, he got them at home as well. Anyway, through most of the summer it would appear that pickled beetroot was high on the schools menu list, therefore he has a deep aversion to it. I decided it might be nice to try and get him to eat a home cooked, sweet earthy beetroot, so I planted some. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After posting a picture on twitter last night I was left with two possible causes, either the leaves had been scorched or they were suffering from a leaf miner infestation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I popped out this morning for a closer look at the leaves and quickly found this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So leaf miner it is then. I have cut off and destroyed all of the offending leaves and shall keep an eye on the remainder. Apparently, though we can still eat the beetroot, so Jim will still get his chance at Beetroot rehabilitation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those of you who read regularly will remember last summers frustration when my peas, wouldn't grow up my beautifully constructed "Great Wall of Barton" . Dwarf peas were never going to make the top, Note to self, always read the packet properly. So this year I deliberately purchased a variety called "Colossal" in the hope that things would be different. I am happy to report that they are. These are growing like mad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elsewhere, the "Leaning Tower of Barton" has been relocated to another bed and this year definitely has three trailing courgettes growing up it. No pumpkins this time, Although it was very entertaining trying to stop pumpkins dropping from 5 feet up . I am happy to report than in a week or so if this weather keeps up we will have a courgette glut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And this year, my broad beans have survived and are currently covered in fattening pods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The one in the top photo became our first summer crop of the season and was consumed yesterday evening for our tea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Waiting for them to go red always takes an age . The whole greenhouse looks very different to a few weeks ago when it was full of plants of the hospice sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have posted loads of pictures of flowers already this year but here are a few more. our house, and all the neighbours are already full of wonderfully smelling blooms and there are many more to come yet. The Sweet Pea's have finally started to come thick and fast and there are so many cornflowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In other news, Woody the baby woodpecker fledged last saturday. He spent a day or so hoping from tree to tree calling for his parents, and then just like that he was gone. The nest is silent, but I know they will all be back and hopefully have babies again next spring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gibson has been spending a lot of time with his friends Flo and her puppy . I think I told you about the puppies who were born on St Patrick's Day. They all had Irish names for a while, but one by one they left all except for one who was originally named Conner. My neighbours decided to keep him and he has been renamed Dodge . He is a sweet little dog and he adores Gibson who is very gentle with him. Each time he comes to visit , Dodge hops into bed with Gibson for a cuddle, its very sweet. </span></div>
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