We’ve been working on clearing out an overgrown corner of the Smallest Smallholding so we can have a Mediterranean-style eating area with loads of wildlife/bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants. It gets sun pretty much all day and the soil is incredibly poor… but that’s OK for some plants! A massively, huge, immense job but I’m determined to [...]
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Well I’ve gone and done it. After three or more years of waiting for Rich to have the time and inclination to build my greenhouse staging, I bit the bullet and ordered some online, just to get me started. It’s three tier staging - 4ft long and 2ft wide and about a third of the [...]
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Batten the hatches!
It’s REALLY windy today. At least my new greenhouse panes are still in situ though - hurrah (above is a picture of me trying very hard to get the pane to fit).
I should be rattling through some freelance work at the moment, but the truth is, it’s gone 10am and I’m propped up [...]
Happy New Year!
I’m well aware that blog-wise, December was a washout for me. As you may or may not have read in my last blog post, I spent the majority of December either being too stressed or too ill to do anything interesting or Smallest Smallholding-related. It felt as if my laptop had become a [...]
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