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A Monday morning reflection
It's mid-winter but a perfectly clear and warm day today, sun shining brightly and all my girls are contentedly scratching in the garden, silently being watched by Artemis, who has quite a time keeping...
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A melt-down and a broken heart
I've had a melt-down. And I've got a broken heart. And so have my girls.First, the melt-down. My girls have absolutely ruined my garden! In about two years they've reduced it to a barren landscape with...
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Won't you come into the garden?
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my chooks to see you...MissyArtemis ChiChiChickyBoo Mr. ChookHettie KiepMegs MickyMicky, hettie and Barbie at the back Snooky & Snookums - the terrible...
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My Old Garden - Saying Goodbye
In August 2004 we were in the throes of moving from our one smallholding to the other - moving from a garden of 2 acres of green splendour and flowers and borders and Koi and duck pond to NOTHING! No...
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My New Garden - Saying Hello - Aug - Dec '04
Saying Hello to the new gardenTo dig in one's own earth, with one's own spade, does life hold anything better?- Beverly Nichols.Hi, after saying goodbye to my old garden, which I lovingly tended for...
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My New Garden: Progress 2 : April to Aug '05
"Tread softly!" a signpost in one garden reads: "Your feet are killing me!" .The Garden on a quiet April nightThank heavens this 2005 Winter seemed extremely mild, because our area, Tarlton, gets...
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My New Garden: Progress 1 - Jan - Mar '05
It is apparent that no lifetime is long enough in which to explore the resources of a few square yards of ground.- Alice M. Coats .After having completed the initial layout and set up of my new garden...
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My New Garden: Progress 3 : Sep '05 to Mar '06
Soil . . . scoop up a handful of the magic stuff. Look at it closely. What wonders it holds as it lies there in your palm. Tiny sharp grains of sand, little faggots of wood and leaf fiber, infinitely...
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My New Garden: Progress 4 - Apr '06 to Jul '06
Winter is the season dominated by bare soil: the whole gardening cycle begins with the care and preparation of the earth during winter so that it will feed plants the following year.One of the things I...
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My New Garden: Progress 5 - Aug to Dec 2006
I haven't up-dated my new garden progress for some time, so please note that this progress is for August to December 2006 - I'll catch up to be current very soon!There is a great pleasure in working in...
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My New Garden: Progress 6 - January to December 2007
It is only when we are aware of the earthand of the earth as poetry that we truly live.- Henry Beston, 1935, Herbs and the EarthIt's January 1st 2007, and not only is it the beginning of a new year, a...
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My New Garden - Progress 7 - Jan - Dec 2008
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell someone else where to dig!~ Texas Bix Bender2008 was...
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My New Garden - Progress 8 - Jan - July 2009
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. - Russell PageWell, I've caught up with my posts on my new garden's progress an am now up...
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My New Garden - Progress 9 - August 2009
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."-- Marcel ProustAugust has arrived, with all the winds it brings, and hopefully Spring will...
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My New Garden - Progress 10 - Sept 2009
"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today."- Joyce ChapmanSpring is such a magical...
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My New Garden: Progress 11 - Oct to Dec 2009
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.- Aldo Leopold2009 is coming to an end, and so soon will summer. We still have 3 or 4 months of...
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Blissful Chooks closing down
Hedgie's Nature JournalI'm removing Blissful Chooks from this blog and all the posts that were here and future ones about my chickens are moving to my Nature Journal, where I feel they will fit in...
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My New Garden : Progress 12 - Jan 2010
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” In 2010, the new year kicked off well - we had a tremendous amount of rain for about 2 or 3 months and everything grew like...
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My New Garden : Progress 13 - February 2010
"An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life." February in the garden was a quiet month seeing as that Chrissie and I were on top of most chores (except the...
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My New Garden : Progress 14 - Apr to Dec 2010
"To find new things, take the path you took yesterday." -John Burroughs The garden at 7am after lots of rainAutumn was almost finished and in April we were still having lots of rain! Even though the...
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