Lucy on August 17th, 2008

With Autumn’s cooler days just around the corner, I’ve been thinking for a while about our dogwood problem. It’s like a monster that we hack back every year, and it just grows like billio, threatening to invade the whole Smallest Smallholding with it’s annoyingly persistant runners. I don’t really want it here, the only reason [...]

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Lucy on August 16th, 2008

Rich decided to make a cheese and tomato sandwich using my homegrown toms. He was a bit disappointed last year - they’d grown fast and the plants were leggy and the result seemed to be fairly watery, tasteless tomatoes. We don’t know if the lack of flavour was down to our tomato variety Cristal F1, [...]

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Lucy on August 15th, 2008

I’m trying to move on from my whining session yesterday. I can only apologise profusely -and thank you to those that commented. Without sounding like a complete attention seeker, it really does spur me on.
So I managed to wake up in a bit more of a reflective mood this morning, the weather definitely helped in [...]

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Lucy on August 15th, 2008

Ian at Farm Blogs From Around the World recently featured the Smallest Smallholding:-
http://farmblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/smallest-smallholding-england.html
The idea is (in Ian’s own words): “At Farm Blogs I am trying to gather in one place the very best of global blogging about farms and farming… My posts are made up of the blog recommendations from farm bloggers and I also [...]

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