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01 May 2009photos from the garden... Ripplestone gardenSunny 20°C / 68°F
Some photos of plants and seedlings in garden. More at ripplestone garden
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29 Apr 2009Potting on...pottering on... 1 1 Lavender Potting UpTime to pot on the lavender, never grown it from seed before. The boys pumkins are growing really well, will need potting on again soon. Saw an orange tip out in the garden, it was not round long enough to get a photo of it!13°C / 55°F
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25 Apr 2009More digging.. and strimming... 2 1 'Snappy' the Venus Fly Trap and Chrysanthemum purpleMore digging and clearing on the allotment yesterday. Forgot to take gardening gloves, narrowly missed getting a big blister. Everything looking OK. Earthed up potatoes. Did heel cuttings for chrysanths. The fly trap caught a fly. If you like long rhyming poems that deal with local Kent history t...Sunny 11°C / 52°F
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22 Apr 2009Chrysanths out... 1 chrysanthemum pink tinge Planting OutSunny 16°C / 61°F
Planted out the crysanth cuttings from bunch of flowers (white with pink tinge) on allotment. Need to sort out cuttings from heels of last year’s chrysanths. Potted on the boys pumpkins.
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21 Apr 2009A lot more on the 'lotty... 2Sweetpeas planted up, two double rows of broad bean seeds in, row of nasturtium seeds (whisky and Ice). Tansy, Onions (Setton) and potatoes (Kestrel) are in and away already. Still loads of digging and clearing to do…. Sown french beans and courgettes on windowsill, will plant out as smal...Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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10 Apr 2009More spring... 3 3 Ripplestone garden and Pansy 'Beachcomber' FloweringSunny 12°C / 54°F
Garden has gone up a gear and stuff is springing up all over the place…more pictures…have seen lots of bumble bees but this week the honey bees are starting to get out and about. Early daffs are now over, peony has leaves emerging. Fig has lots of little figs, I usually loose them all...
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03 Apr 2009A lot of digging on the 'lotty... 3 36°C / 43°F
18 ‘Kestrel’ potatoes in plus three rows of onion sets ‘setton’. A row of tansy sown. More digging than I care to think about still required on the allotment, not to mention clearing…
Meanwhile…here’s some Spring photos from the garden.
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25 Mar 2009Sweet peas up and at 'em 1 'Lisa Marie' sweet pea Showing True Leaves, Is it growing yet? garden , and 'Lisa Marie' sweet peaThis is faster than the other two lots of sweetpeas, already getting to point where they need pinching out!Cloudy 10°C / 50°F
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22 Mar 2009and, just like that, there is an Allotment!!! 5 2Very happy, very shocked, the allotment has come through….will be doing less blogging and more digging for the next few weeks…Overcast 14°C / 57°F
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20 Mar 2009Yalding Organic Gardens, seedlings emerge and maybe...just maybe... 'Lisa Marie' sweet pea and sweet peasGeorgeous weather this week meant that I was able to visit the Yalding Organic Garden after months of meaning to and not quite managing to. Lovely day, lovely place, full report to go up next week on Ripplestone Review. Sweetpeas just starting to sprout. Saw a peacock butterfly on Weds in the ga...Sunny 9°C / 48°F
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