I have a bear

A bare what? Arf, arf. No, seriously, I think there’s a bear living at the end of the garden in my vegetable patch. I can hear you hmm-ing from here, so let me explain. This year’s sweetcorn is rubbish. I thought it was just down to shitty seed that had rotted, but then last year’s [...]

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That thing at the end of the garden

You know, that bit of ground into which I put some seeds and wandered off. The vegetable patch, right. It feels like I’m not doing so well this year. Partly because I’m not accosted by luscious green leaves and vines the moment I step outside the door. Things are a little smaller in scale than [...]

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7 Days: Day 3 – Compost Queen

This shot was inspired by a gift from our 7 Days Angel, Bethany, who sent me the most appropriate bookmark possible. (And, hell, if I can wind up Kirsty by featuring my compost for the umpteenth time, then my day is complete). Illustrated with crown-wearing gardener in a beautiful dress, the text on the bookmark [...]

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Eviction

I had a feeling that you’re not meant to let old tubers grow … and when I checked in my books, I found I was right. So my male relatives may churlishly cheer, while the rest of you pansy-ass women can weep quietly at the eviction of this rogue potato. The haulm had already grown [...]

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Rogue vegetable

This potato is in the space allotted for sweetcorn. I didn’t plant it there. I do not draw delightful plans only to completely disregard them. I do draw delightful plans and leave them half-finished, but that’s not the point. This potato is growing where potatoes grew last year. Apparently I didn’t manage to find every [...]

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30 Tiny Moments: #27

Watering the spuds and the seeds. Rain was promised for today, so I didn’t water the seeds last night. However our promised rainy day turned into one short shower. Then when I was in the process of uploading the photo to Flickr it started to rain again, but only for a few moments, so the [...]

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