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• small trees, groundplan and tortoise gardening?

  
  

  So far weather is good so I’ve paced out allotment spaces and drawn up a roughly-to-scale plan. One notable point is that mid-morning this time of year the upper plots are in full shade and the lower plots are in full sun. just been cutting back brambles at entrance to ‘tunnel’, found a self-seeded baby […]

• Rain and rain again

  
  

  Thursday. wet and stormy November day. Sat in the polytunnel HQ having a few cuppas and a good ol’ chat. Lots of plans made and sensible discussions about what is going where and how. All very exciting, making plans. The torrential rain hammering on the polytunnel roof made talking almost impossible. It reminded us NOT […]

• can the garden be the artist?

  
  

  As someone who has moved on from traditional art processes and into dialogical participatory process I am surprising myself with thoughts I’m having about the materials we are uncovering here. For instance, these squares of mesh could be used by a group of kids to make woven objects and this tray is perfect for felt-making. […]

• returned from whence it came

  
  

  I delivered two jars of chutney to out landlord and his mate on my way to the garden today. Paperwork strewn around the polytunnel this morning is evidence of today’s windy weather. Now I have an empty basket and having spent some time sorting plant pots I’m going to see what else I can find […]

• windfall to chutney

  
  

  Collected windfalls on Monday and by bedtime they were transformed into chutney.

• still catching up first visit

  
  

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• first visit photo catch-up

  
  

• Misty beauty

  
  

  Beautiful. The late afternoon sun skimmed the top of the trees sending the browning leaves into a golden shimmer across the garden. As we cleared the area in front of Poly1, the sun began to get lower and lower in the sky. The garden grew cooler, and more tranquil.  Silence, the noise of the outside […]

• Flowerpots

  
  

  Day started misty and damp, the earth smelt fresh and the air smelt clean. Worked up at Flowerpots unearthing unused pots and sorting them into piles. There are thousands! backbreaking work, brambles attacking hard. Sun came through and suddenly it was hot. In the middle of November, just in T shirt and jeans! Sat outside […]

• Cold days

  
  

  I think this thermometer IS working! the digital temperature gauge in my car said it was 8 deg today, so does this!  Hooray! 

• Google earth image – good old days!

  
  

  Thought I would download a pic of the garden from google earth – obviously taken when the garden was in good repair, polytunnels with poly! glasshouse with glass!  Our is the wedge to the right of the path that runs alongside the vines on the left. In love with it 🙂