Grow Your Own Magazine

..(continued ...) No, next year I think I'll make things a little easier for myself. No potatoes, no growing from seed and nothing which needs staking. And the tubs which are now empty (where the bulbs were) will stay empty - I have far too many things in containers and it takes me nearly an hour each evening to water them all. And you can't not do it, their lives depend on you! Its a big responsibility this gardening lark.

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Everything is growing fast now and its hard to keep up. Since last time: the daffs are over and the ones in pots have been planted at the back under the tree (we haven't cut the greens off yet, its not six weeks since the last flower). Wood pidgeons are taking great delight in pecking at the branches of the plum tree. I 'ground' some poppy seeds in the ground at back with my foot - I brought a seed head back from Carcassonne in France and it an experiment to see if they come up. The lawn needs...

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