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Allotment Plotting
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A day of our own ley-line lying in the late autumnal sun and showers.Relating my boot measurement to yours…How many paces make a plot?The plotting looks different on paper, in measurement to when marked out in reality. A reminder that the place always leads the action there and how we work with/in it. That is […]
Tall Trees
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20th November and after a week of storms and high winds, peace, warmth and calm descends on the garden. The warm autumn sun makes the place sing. Over at the Tall Trees Allotment site things are really coming on. The first strim has been done and reduced the waist high grass to a manageable level […]
Never Alone
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It’s amazing how even though you think you are alone at the garden you never really are. Today a bright colourful moth fluttered down and rested near me. Basking in the autumn sunshine he was beautiful and a true companion.
Going Potty!
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Obsessive. That’s what it is! retrieving and sorting flower pots into stacks. Up at ‘Flowerpots’ am keen to get all the unused pots out from under the brambles so that we can get on with moving the damaged polytunnel and digging the new allotments. This has led to obsessive behaviour, sorting them into sizes, […]
Raspberry
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Colour in the garden. The Raspberry is our first and only fruit! (apart from apples galore that is). In the pouring rain of a November day seeing this jewel shining in the magnifying raindrops made me stop and think about colour. How important it is. The bright red pierced the green of the surrounding garden, […]
small trees, groundplan and tortoise gardening?
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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
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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?
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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
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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 […]