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Kennyhill Cottage: Good Friday potatoes
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Friday, 21 March 2008. Potato bed, early June 07. I thought potatoes were simple things. Until I looked at the seeds catalogues. Pages and pages of them. First earlies, second earlies, early and late main crops, salad potatoes, blight resistant, eel worm resistant (what the heck is eel worm anyway? Frost resistant, high yielder, grow better in the North, white, black, red, blue … My head was spinning! So this year is the real trial! I got them all from Alan Romans. Our choice this year is:. Pink Fir Appl...
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Kennyhill Cottage: Blooming marvellous!
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Saturday, 23 February 2008. There isn't much colour on the plot at the moment, apart from that lonely crocus that appeared in the middle of an empty bed . The snowdrops below were actually photographed outside the flat! So in the long border we've got: dutch iris, physalis, lupins, gladioli, gysophilia, red hot poker, triteleia and acidanthera. In the small border will go: lillies, freesias, tigrida, sparaxis and probably some annuals. Only time will tell I suppose. I've sowed some sweet peas inside last...
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Kennyhill Cottage: August 2007
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Thursday, 2 August 2007. I know I said that I would come back with an update of progress and harvest on plot 52, but this week has been very busy with our last minute preparations for our holidays. We're leaving tonight for 2 weeks in Montpellier and the Pyrenees where we should enjoy some well deserved sunshine and sample the local delicacies! I do promise however that I will come back with loads of pictures and details of what we've been up to on the plot during July! Newly laid lawn in the sitting area.
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Kennyhill Cottage: Thank goodness for the blogosphere (and Lidl)
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Saturday, 8 March 2008. Thank goodness for the blogosphere (and Lidl). Fruit tree extravaganza - Fig, orange, lemon and fig again (and potatoes chitting away). Brought to my attention early this week that Lidl were having one of their big gardening extravaganza this week and were practically giving away fruit bushes. Lucky she did as I was convinced it was next week and would have certainly missed out. I leave you with a couple of dwarf daffodils which flowered, right on cue, on St David Day. This commen...
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Kennyhill Cottage: March Big Catch-Up
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Sunday, 30 March 2008. Although I haven't been posting much in March, I have been out on the plot pretty much every weekend, dodging snow and hail showers! Hopefully the cold unsettled weather is behing us now and we can finally look forward to spring "proper". But before I thought I'd post a bumper update of the various jobs I have been doing on the plot in March. Before and after pictures of the strawberry bed . I have a row each of Mara des Bois and Elsanta bought from Ken Muir. The results are rather...
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Kennyhill Cottage: May 2009
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009. Back to my bad habits of not keeping up with my promises of blogging! April has been pretty rubbish on the gardening front. Hard to do anything between the showers (I don't mind getting wet but the two apprentices in the buggy do! Visitors and a couple of weeks in France introducing the apprentices to the family! I also sowed a couple of row of broad beans at the same time and they are now about 10 cm tall, which means the mice didn't get them to my relief! The strawberry bed needed...
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Kennyhill Cottage: May 2007
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007. The plot from the bottom – we can see the paths and we’ve got beds! Around the shed – and a brand new home-made compost bin. We actually managed to grow quite a bit last summer despite a late start: lettuces, all sorts of salad leaves, a few onions, some cherry tomatoes, a lot of green and yellow courgettes, radishes, peas and beans, sweetcorn, turnips and even some strawberries. Young alpine strawberries under one of the apple trees. Tuesday, 29 May 2007. One year ago . But didn&...
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Kennyhill Cottage: January 2008
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Sunday, 13 January 2008. The weather since the beginning of 2008 had been pretty awful everywhere in Britain, snow, heavy rains and flood. In Glasgow, it's not been much worse than usual with a lot of rain and some pretty cold temperatures! But last week we had gale force winds, which caused a bit of damage in the city and of course, on the allotments. A few fences came down (like the Urban Bumpkin's. My small greenhouse, standing proud in March 07. Not so proud anymore in January 08. One Man and His Dig.
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Kennyhill Cottage: Back for good?
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009. Wow, can't believe it's been almost a year since I last posted here . Last summer was not ideal, rain and cold don't make happy gardeners. The plot did ok, considering the weather but the main concern was some growing being done elsewhere. It seems that my habit of double sowing was to follow me in life and on the 23rd of November, these two wee boys made their grand entrance into our world:. The boys seemed to enjoy their first proper session - that or the fresh air! Mo - I'm l...
