Tag: Harvest
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2021 October
After a relatively warm September, autumn definitely arrived in October. And with it one of the main tasks – converting most of the contents of the orchard to cider. Yes, we do cheat slightly – we take the apples to a professional and get excellent cider back in return. Another autumn sight is a lot […]
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2021 – September
Some lovely warm weather at the start of the month. We made the most of it. Lots of viisitors and trips out too. Back at home, we took delivery of some nice outdoor furniture (and tested it too). It gave Andrew a new job – oiling all of the teak. The benches are to be […]
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2021 – August
Visitors, and holiday activities kept us busy for most of this month. And the weather was mostly kind, in fact it’s beginning to be very dry in the garden. Fine for me, but some of the new planting is looking a little sad. It’s not all fun and games though. We did get some work […]
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2020 – November
All quiet here this month, with a second lockdown in place we had no visitors again. We did take ourselves out for breezy walks along the seafront. It began to look very autumnal, lots of misty mornings and plenty of fungi appearing Time to start putting the garden in order for Winter. Fuchsias and other […]
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2020 – October
Autumn has arrived, getting cooler and damper, so it’s time for doing some more jobs in the garden. Fortunately the weather wasn’t too extreme this month, with less damage than we had in September and August, although I did wake up one morning to find that the fuchsias had tumbled in the night following a […]
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2020 – September
So September was a mixed month weather-wise, some glorious days in the first half, but then a very autumnal feel to the end of the month. The work on the patio was finally booked in for the third week of September, so we spent some time clearing the area around the back of the house. […]
