Seasons, soil and small experiments — a slow record of what I plant, what works, and what the weather had other plans for.
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Short entries written after an evening in the garden — mostly for my own memory, partly for anyone growing along.
Tomatoes finally outpaced the slugs this week. A note on staking early and why I stopped pinching side shoots so aggressively.
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I used to cut back thyme and lavender before bloom. This year I left them — the bees took over, and the whole corner changed.
Continue reading →A full season of leaf-mould mulch later: fewer weeds, softer soil, and watering roughly half as often. The slow approach pays off.
Continue reading →Seasonal Tips
Pick the ripest, healthiest fruit from your strongest plants and let it fully mature before saving seed for next spring.
Autumn leaves are free soil food. Pile them in a corner now and you'll have crumbly leaf-mould by next season.
Garlic and autumn onion sets go in now. Deep enough to anchor, shallow enough to breathe — they'll root before frost.
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I keep a modest kitchen garden and write down what happens in it. No fancy setup — raised beds, a compost corner, a watering can that's older than me, and a lot of trial and error.
This journal is where I keep the lessons so I don't make the same mistake twice. If it's useful to you too, all the better.
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One short letter at the start of each month — what's growing, what's next, and one thing I got wrong.