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I daren't ask for any more wooden raised beds to be built so I then bought three link-a-board ones.

The first one is round one of my gooseberry bushes, I've also planted a Rhubarb but that doesn't seem to be thriving very well

The other two are my Strawberry beds.

Then we built the pond ... if you look closely you can just catch a glimpse of our little occupants

I think that's bored my blog enough for now, maybe we'll have a peak in the...

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...rather than dig up more lawn we had a go at making a raised bed. We grew carrots, lettuce a few parsnips in it last year but we weren't very succesful.

The first raised bed is the one on the right of the picture.

This year we've gone a stage further and built some more. The one on the left for carrots etc. I've filled it with a more sandy mix than the others. You can see my Heath Robinson attempt at a barrier against the dreaded carrot fly. On the opposite...

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I've had to take a couple of days off due to a minor ailment. I also have just taken delivery of a new camera lens so I thought I'd have a little tour around the garden as I've been promising to do.

I also managed to pot on some more tomatoes. They are all in single pots now, some even in their final pots.

So lets start with the first section of the garden that was turned over to my new found passion for vegetables and grow your own.

So we have the...

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.. all that I wrote yesterday must have caused a bad omen. Does anyone ever think that Gardening is more trouble than it's worth?

When I got home from work yesterday, I thought I'd go take a peek in the greenhouse to see if all was well as I'd been writing about all the nice green progress in there. What did I find?

I found that the frost from the night before had caused havoc. The grapevines were now droopy brown messes. Some tomatoes, including my most advanced...

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... I'm really sorry for neglecting you. I keep meaning to take a tour of the garden with my camera and put the pictures on here. It's just been so cold I haven't had the initiative to do so.

I've done some preperations and planting but not a lot. So far I have:

In the Greenhouse - a pot of carrots, a few peppers and some tomatoes that really got to the stage of needing more light than indoors could provide. I'm now worried they'll catch cold, checked them last...

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