Where there is muck: one source of our organic cow manure stands proud with horns So our growing year gets off the ground. After Saturday’s Equinox and a week of warmth, we’ve finally sown some seed.
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Like an exquisite kimono in Kentish Town Well, there they are outside my bedroom french windows, where I can watch them propped up on a pillow.
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Polly heads home with the first castelfranco chicory I visited the allotment this morning. It felt a bit like returning to the scene of a crime. The place where we had hurriedly tipped two tonnes of cow manure into our partly constructed palette compost heap (and across the main path), then rushed off to return [...]
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Try Viola ‘Boughton Blue’ in hanging baskets or planted under shrub roses. Photograph: John Glover/Alamy Garden centres are filling up with bedding pansies, often in packs of mixed colours. All great fun, but a nuisance if you want simpler colour schemes. This is a group of flowers under constant development, so seed merchants are selling [...]
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