I like 25 gallon butts and I cannot lie

See what I did there? That’s a reference to popular culture. I went from a black rubbish sack full of decomposing leaves to a little silver plastic bin into which I put my prized horse poo, moss and leave and what not. However that bin was soon full and I began to set my sights [...]

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Garlic

The garlic continues to grow and I now have the full twenty-one plants above ground, five of which were random cloves that had started sprouting in the fridge. It’ll be interesting to see how the final harvest of those compares to that from the cultivated cloves. I’ve been trying to get a photo of the [...]

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Why I like living in the country

Having come up with a pretty good mulch of leaves, pumpkin and coffee grounds in just a couple of months, I’m starting up another little compost bin to collect good stuff for my patch. There are lots of orchards around here and I thought I might be able to stealthily pick up a bag of [...]

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My plantation

I was given one of these fantastically menacing double hoes for Christmas. You really shouldn’t stand in front of or behind me when I’m wielding it. Or rather I shouldn’t wield it when people are standing in front of or behind me. I gave it its first taste of soil yesterday and churned up a [...]

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The Great Pumpkin Massacre of 2007

I’d toyed with the idea of growing pumpkins again next year; maybe just one vine, or perhaps I’d train some Jack Be Little pumpkins up a trellis. However, having spent 3 days dealing with nearly my own weight in pumpkins from this year, the idea of pumpkins in 2008 is completely off the table. I [...]

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This week

* I made compost. I’d already raked up half a sack of leaves – an effort which in the days following caused me to empathise with the elderly as I bent down to pull on my shoes and wondered if I would make it all the way. Aside from the patch of garlic, there’s nothing [...]

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