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09 Apr 2012Back garden
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Did a very depressing test of the soil in the back garden, basically everything is low or very low Nitrate didn’t even get on the chart, phosphorus was low, and potassium again was very low. The one bit of good news was that the ph was Neutral. Given the clay texture it looks like we have j...Storms 10°C / 50°F -
05 Apr 2012Back garden
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Tried out a new compost when we were planting out the Hebe and the Sweet Box, 50-50 mix of worm casts and wool compost from Wiggly Wigglers – nice rich mix looks good, hope the plants like it.Rainy 12°C / 54°F -
31 Mar 2012Buddleia
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Masacred the buddleia – cut it back to around 2ft from the ground – from about 12 feet high, corner look very bare – hope it grows back quick. At least we got a lot of woody stuff for the compost bin and the bits to large for the shreader have made a great bug house at the back ...Cloudy 13°C / 55°F -
20 Mar 2012Potato 'Duke of York' Planting Out
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Sunny 13°C / 55°F -
18 Mar 2012Smoke bush 'Royal Purple' Budding
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Removed about a third of the length of branches, it was getting fairly straggly. Just started budding – hoping that this will force the buds on the older branches.Cloudy 11°C / 52°F -
17 Mar 2012Deodar Cedar 'Gold Cone' and Back garden
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oh dear – classic mistake, bought this as a dwarf, lost tag, so wasn’t to sure what it would grow into. Searched it out and it grows to 30 ft, oh well, guess it will need to come out :-(Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
17 Mar 2012Hazel Budding
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Removed three large branches from base – 10 feet or so, towering over the remainder of the tree and ruining shapeSunny 8°C / 46°F -
17 Mar 2012
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Dug over the vegtable bed and re planted some garlic
Back gardenGot all the weeds out of the veg plot and added compost and then re planted some garlic that was still unharvested from last year. Winnie (8 week old guide dog puppy) had to be restrained from digging them back upSunny 8°C / 46°F
