It's a problem, isn't it? Here I am , trying to blog my garden to give myself some references about planting and harvest times, weather, pests etc, and I go and get too caught up in the actual garden to record any of it. Well damn. Oh well, let's do a quick state-of-the-nation ( Read more... )

This was taken at the smallholding of one of my tutors. It's an artichoke flower, part of the biodiversity strips he and his partner have planted around their vege blocks. It was early morning and the sleepy bumblebees were snoozing on this heavenly pillow. There were ten in the one flower.


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This morning's work experience day started with watering in the propagation and shade houses (as well as watering the grafted apples and removing shoots from the root stock ( Read more... )