In the garden - May 2023
IN THE GARDEN It's still very cold and mice have been munching through the sweet corn and sweet pea seedlings in the greenhouse! On the...
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Spring
wllmsutherland
- 3 avr.
- 1 Min
Early spring in the garden
The wet weather has been a bit of a pest as we try to get the garden ready for spring. Finally we've had a couple of dry days – enough to...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mai 2022
- 3 Min
April showers? Alas not!
It has been a long cold spring in the garden and it's now desperate for rain! We've just finished our first SS course of the year (and...
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wllmsutherland
- 31 mars 2022
- 3 Min
March Days
We have passed the spring equinox now and the pace in the garden is slowly picking up. There is still tidying to be done and, while the...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mars 2022
- 1 Min
Early sowings
Suddenly we seem to have reached March! The artichokes are doing what artichokes do but, more exciting, we have new blossom on the...
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Will Sutherland
- 30 mai 2021
- 2 Min
It's growing in the garden!
Yes, the garden is growing and the sun is shining. The harvesting of wonderful salad has taken over from the cutting of succulent...
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Will Sutherland
- 1 mai 2021
- 3 Min
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SPRING?
It seems that the mysteries of global warming have brought us the driest and coldest April for 50 years – and the plants have hated it....
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Will Sutherland
- 3 avr. 2021
- 3 Min
April in the garden
This month my dear old little workhorse rotavator has been busy again, preparing beds for spring planting and knocking the emerging “City...
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Will Sutherland
- 2 juin 2020
- 4 Min
May in the Garden
Sunshine and more sunshine – has been the story of May in the garden. But the breezes have been cool and some of the nights downright...
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Will Sutherland
- 5 mai 2020
- 3 Min
An ideal spring ?
The broccoli was (and is) great. We've enjoyed sumptuous green shoots almost every other day now – and there are 22 bags safely stored...
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- 4 avr. 2020
- 1 Min
The garden is waking up!
At last – dry weather, fresh broccoli and lots of seeds already sown. Spring is on the way and the primroses are sweetly blooming. ...
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Will Sutherland
- 13 juin 2019
- 2 Min
Poem from the Spring Garden
The seeds have spouted, sucking in the air Transforming its carbon without a care Powered by sunlight and the soil below Together it's...
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Will Sutherland
- 9 mai 2019
- 5 Min
Spring 2019 course brewed a good batch!
It's exciting when a new course begins on a Friday to imagine the interesting people (the students) I'm going to be working with in the...
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Will Sutherland
- 2 avr. 2019
- 3 Min
Use the “Force” - make your own bread and begin to change the world!
This month we are talking about spring in the garden - but you don't need a garden to experience the “force” of life! Anyone can make...
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Will Sutherland
- 24 mars 2019
- 3 Min
Spring is here and the first seeds are in the ground
Salad crops, courgettes and pumpkins are now germinating in the greenhouse. Potatoes, parsnips and celeriac are already under the...
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Will Sutherland
- 30 juil. 2018
- 1 Min
SO THE SNOW IS CLEARING AND THE SUN IS SHINING AGAIN
Somehow the winter seems to have rushed past - so fast in fact that I have not had time to update this site! Apologies. The garden is...
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