Category: Garden
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2019 – September
The weather is changing, and so are a few other things: A lot of time has been spent picking apples. Those that we aren’t going to use or store are being sent to be turned into cider at Skidbrooke Cider Company Other crops including the largest tomato, and the tastiest cherry toms – sungold. In […]
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2019 – August
Summer sunshine means lots of visitors, and time spent in the garden and on the beach. Alex was still here at the start of the month, so we put him to work. We had an overflow tent in the garden (The cats wouldn’t allow Fitz the dog in the house…) The mobile country cottage turned […]
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2019 – April
Another month of mostly fine weather meant that more work was done in the garden. Lots of signs of spring – the first swallow was spotted in the middle of the month, and the first cuckoo heard at the end. And of course April is Harrogate Flower Show month, so of course I had to […]
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2019 – February
It’s been a busy month. All the activity has really been outside. At the start of the month this was challenging due to the freezing weather, but the second half of February had unseasonably glorious weather and we were able to move on quite a few projects. With help from our glamorous assistants: Removal of […]
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Mid October
We have carpets upstairs! And (some) furniture. Alright there are still a lot of boxes, but it’s beginning to look like home. Outside it’s looking a bit autumnal, and that is probably the last picture of the porch before it gets a makeover. And in produce news, I weighed one of the large tomatoes […]
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First Day Tour – Front and Back Garden
The front Garden is fairly small, and one of the few places with purely ornamental plants. The back garden has been partly lawn, and mostly goat paddock – with another shelter for them there. And yes, it does go beyond the little fence all the way to the trees at the end.