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Is it spring?
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Minus -5 deg, ice in the bucket and frost on the ground. But the fruit trees are budding. A sure sense of hope. How wonderful nature is.
Seedlings
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The herb seeds planted before Christmas have sprouted and need pricking out already. Parlsey, Thyme and Rosemary. Basil was the least successful. They must be tough to have survived the freezing temperatures over the last few weeks. It was minus -10 degrees down in the valley one night last week. Unheard of in Cornwall!
Weird weather
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It seems bizare to think that only a week ago there was snow, and now we have emerging bulbs in the garden! I guess thats what you expect from a Cornish season, weird weather!! Today I planned out some of the photographs I plan to make some information and education boards with, will keep you […]
Freebie
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Found this bag of bulbs dumped next to the dustbins at home. Will plant them and see what they come up as!
Bright Idea!
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Looked in the bucket of bulbs gifted to us from the garden centre and noticed some were sprouting! Though I had better plant them up. 3 pots and 1 growbag later – Hey Presto! Look forward to the sunny delight.
Job well done
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Sat 16th Jan. Spent the morning carrying 50 fence posts and 10 rails up the hill to the garden. Was worried about the wood being left in the car park, vulnerable to opportunists. Hard work. Good exercise.
Thinking about things
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Thinking about our small but growing community at the garden. The value of the current team members is priceless, the love and interest they show is so welcome and so heartening. The garden feels a safe and happy place. The ideas and discussion are always interesting and the polyHQ-discussions always useful. We laugh, we smile, […]
Words
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Words for this week…. Noggin, plans, sketches, pegging out, happy, cold, excited, freezing, bright, squelchy, cake, share, flowerpots, allotment, glass, tea, plastic, mist, tin, posts, robin, dig, soup, bonfire, boots, tape, snow, thermometer, straw, pegs, biscuits, crunchy, forks, water, ice, trees, autumn, berries, dig, artichoke, volunteer, joy……. apart from tea and biscuits these are words […]
stake out!
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Staking out the areas for the yurt and the straw bale building – fantastic to be visualising and walking the space Suddenly it all seems real – how amazing!