
National Allotments Week 2021
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I am surprised and embarrassed to note that the last time I wrote on TFG’s blog was back in January. Where have the last […]
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I am surprised and embarrassed to note that the last time I wrote on TFG’s blog was back in January. Where have the last […]
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The pots are all planted and in position, their arrangements have been checked from every angle, adjusted and appraised again. Happy with the result, […]
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Work brought me to Edinburgh this week. I could not pay a visit to one of my favourite cities in the world without a […]
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The title of of this post is tongue-in-cheek given I’m sat at my desk with rain pattering on the skylight and a brisk draught […]
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Anyone who has spent time holidaying in Cornwall will know that the county’s weather can be relied upon to dictate your itinerary from start […]
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Cold weather in spring can only hold our gardens back for so long. It’s like a catapult, the further the sling is pulled back […]
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In a normal year, I’d consider myself lucky to have one or two daffodils blooming in May. By May Day their dominion is over […]
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It has been the strangest month; cold – indeed the frostiest April in sixty years – and desert-dry. Although we’ve escaped spring frosts here […]
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It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever […]
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Over the last week, we’ve been blessed with glorious spring weather. Sunshine and temperatures in the high teens and twenties (ºC) have, quite literally, […]
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Our garden is at its lowest ebb from early February until the Ides of March, on the 15th of the month. Battered by gales […]
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I am generally reticent about writing book reviews. However, when the first couple of critiques I read online are comedically scathing, my interest is […]
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