Category: Orchard
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2019 – October
Next (Last for the time being) big project underway. An upstairs bathroom, to be built directly above the current bathroom. While the builders are here, I’m also getting a door moved. This will make the layout of the landing a lot easier to deal with, although it does mean a lot more disruption, with two […]
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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 – May
More beautiful weather this month, and the growth in the garden has been phenomenal, even though there has not really been very much rain. It’s been very busy outside, but fortunately I had extra labour again (Christine for the last week, and Helen for a few days) Plenty of colour around, it’s just a shame […]
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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 […]