This weekend we did many things, and it was great ( Read more... )

Strawberries picked fresh from your garden really do taste better than shop-bought :)

I finally have a gardening icon, one which may explain why am both spending much time on the soil at present and probably a lot LESS in future, bugger it ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Groundforce came to Poole and turned what is now my garden from an overgrown jungle to a low maintenance garden. Please note: LOW maintenance. The family we bought the place from must have accidentally heard NO maintenance ( Read more... )

..because I's bin GARDENING ( Read more... )

I have been busy this afternoon, sat on my bum (as usual). The aim is to get my aforementioned bum into the garden in 2008, to create a brand new and productive veggie patch *nod nod* Once upon a time this garden was on Ground Force, or so the neighbours tell us, but looking at it now you would never believe that The Almighty Titchmarsh once set ( Read more... )

The family next door brought an empty rabbit hutch when they moved in over the summer. This has recently become occupied by a small bunny of great black and white cuteness. I have no idea what its name is, but it should be either "Houdini" or "Bun-bun ( Read more... )

On Saturday we went to one of my favourite events in this area: the international food market. Yumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyum. It's in a nearby town that's twinned with half of Europe (or so it seems), all contributing a few traders to the annual festival. We generally go along with a few friends, buy up whatever we're after, sample a hell of a lot ( Read more... )

Ok so the photo is pretty terrible, but look: my first comedy vegetable! Fruit! Whatever!


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