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Friday, May 16, 2008
GARDENING
FROM tomatoes, my daughter Roseanna’s favourite, to potatoes — my passion.
For a while, I’ve asked myself the question whether Jersey Royals taste the same as they used to? Other people have similarly questioned them too.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
GARDENING
I WAS so pleased when poor little Tiny Tom popped up his fragile head.
I thought he would have been crippled by age and was delighted that one wizened seed from a packet that should have been sown by the year 2000 had germinated.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
GARDENING
ACROSS the Island, schoolchildren are learning about gardening like never before.
An ever-increasing number of schools are taking on the task of telling kids about food miles and, best of all, helping them grow good, wholesome produce.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
GARDENING
PIG farmer Stuart Pierce hopes he has cherry picked a new venture that will bear fruit.
IW Bacon continues without him but down at Godshill he has taken on the 4,000 cherry tree orchard that is in full blossom, at the same time as the ornamentals throughout the Island that bloom in ever-greater spring profusion.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
GARDENING DIARY
THERE have been guerrillas at work down in East Cowes but now they have come out of the mist and attacked a project with the help of the authorities.
A couple of glasses of wine ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
GARDENING
MISTLETOE was accompanied by whine the other weekend.
Planting of the sticky berries was frustratingly snowed off but, kept in a bag in a cool place, they survived the delay.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
GARDENING DIARY
THE brilliance and bothersomeness of the weather never ceases to amaze.
I was pleased the contents of a bag of daffs, bought late and cheap, had emerged as little rays of sunshine ...
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Friday, April 4, 2008
GARDENING
GARDEN carnage caused by the biggest blow for 21 years failed to uproot my newly installed greenhouse.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
GARDENING
NEW brooms offer a sweep of colour in the garden.
A great advantage of cytisus scoparious, the common broom, is that it is fast growing and quick to establish, meaning it can be bought small, and cheaply.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
GARDENING DIARY
MAGNOLIAS have an inner steel. They look the most fragile of spring flowers, a beautiful herald of better times ahead, but most are surprisingly robust.
Their mettle was really tested...
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