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Six on Saturday – 4/9/2021

September 4, 2021Categories six on saturday39 Comments on Six on Saturday – 4/9/2021

With every week that passes there is a sense of the spring slowly winding down. It's a chilly 12°C here this morning but the weather has been benign and most things are holding up quite well but a day or two of wind and rain will quickly change that. I'm not talking Ida wind and…

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Six on Saturday – 7/8/2021

August 7, 2021Categories six on saturday25 Comments on Six on Saturday – 7/8/2021

How quickly these weeks roll around, with little enough sense of anything getting done. I seem to spend my days being busy but have nothing to show for it. At the moment it's raining so I have an excuse. Six on Saturday is a good filler of time when it's wet. Our host, the Propagator,…

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Six on Saturday – 1/5/2021

May 1, 2021Categories six on saturday50 Comments on Six on Saturday – 1/5/2021

Weird it is. For a good part of yesterday the sky to the south of us was black with rain coming down in sheets. There were several claps of thunder though I didn't notice any lightning flashes. We had about five drops of rain, the rest missed us. Normally that would have been a good…

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Six on Saturday – 17/10/2020

October 17, 2020Categories six on saturday31 Comments on Six on Saturday – 17/10/2020

There will be only one thing happening in my garden this saturday and it involves stone. Lots of stone. You won't get to see it in Saturday fsixes, it's such fun I'll do a post about it separately.I got the sheet onto my polytunnel on thursday, so that's now ready to get tested by next…

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Six on Saturday – 8/8/2020

August 8, 2020August 25, 2020Categories six on saturday48 Comments on Six on Saturday – 8/8/2020

The major event of the week was getting a visit from our local NGS organiser, resulting in provisional agreement that next year we will be opening for the National Garden Scheme. I'm in shock, I don't think the full implications have sunk in. There are things I've been putting off that I'm going to have…

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Six on Saturday – 18/4/2020

April 18, 2020August 25, 2020Categories six on saturday34 Comments on Six on Saturday – 18/4/2020

We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…

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Apple grafting, the low tech way.

January 26, 2020Categories Fruit4 Comments on Apple grafting, the low tech way.

I've done a bit of apple grafting but never anything on a large scale. I'm not skilled, I don't have years of experience but I can say that it has almost always worked, in that the grafts have been successful. I was however a nurseryman and I did have access to rubber ties and grafting…

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How to prune apples.

August 24, 2018Categories Fruit10 Comments on How to prune apples.

I read a blog the other day entitled ‘How to grow Alstroemeria’ which started with an apology for its pretentious title, used because confident titles attract search engine attention. I imagine there is a lot more written about pruning apples than growing Alstroemerias, so confident or not, I’m not expecting the world to sit up…

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Six on Saturday 13/5/2017

May 13, 2017September 30, 2020Categories six on saturday1 Comment on Six on Saturday 13/5/2017

Six on Saturday, or SOS; appropriate because my allotment seems to be constantly under assault by pests. Gooseberry sawfly is far worse than I've had before, I squash hundreds, the next day they're all back again. And I thought the slugs had been chewing my cabbages, turns out it's rootfly. Nematodes will be ordered and…

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Six on Saturday 6/5/2017

May 6, 2017September 30, 2020Categories six on saturday1 Comment on Six on Saturday 6/5/2017

"The Propagator" has just launched a new meme which struck a chord with me, so this is by way of climbing on board. Six things going on in the garden. 1) This is Camellia 'Nightrider', very dark, very late flowering and with new leaves a similar colour to the flowers but shiny. It's a very…

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