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March 2012

The temptation to write a whole article on spring seed sowing is immense. If you have been put off the garden by the dismal winter weather then there is nothing more heartening...

February 2012

Write out one hundred times ‘I must not go on about the weather’. Well sorry, but bearing in mind my weather station has not recorded a temperature below 3degs C this winter...

January 2012

I caught up on some reading and learning whilst we endured the sub zero temperatures of late November and December (well, November at least! Ed.). It’s a grand opportunity to use the...

December

The BBC will not do long range weather forecasts now and its odd really that as the technology for forecasting weather has improved we seem to be provided with less information but...

November

It’s November and one is tempted to believe that much of the garden is going to sleep. On closer inspection however it is clear to see that there are still a few...

October

Bollingey is a bit off my beaten track but I have a good friend, Sally, who lives there who I usually meet somewhere between the two of us but I went over...

September

It is exactly a year since my Rhode Island reds arrived and I look back on an interesting year with them. We prepared a large area of grass with wire chicken netting...

August

Assuming you are at home and not entertaining hoards of relatives for this wonderful month of August then as I have said before now is the time to look around the garden...

July

July, and all is well in the garden. A warm June with some welcome rains and little wind has sprung everything into life. The sappy spring growth has either fallen over in...

June

There’s so much to talk about in June that I am not sure where to start this month!! No doubt those with greenhouses are doing the usual dash to open them in...