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Waiting for rain
The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke up to sunshine. We rushed out to make the most of it before the rain came – and that is how the… more →
colour it green diary
waiting for rain
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colouritgreen wrote 3 weeks ago: The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke u … more →
november
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: It just seemed to sneak up on us – I suppose the good weather making us forget it was autumn, … more →
confused garden
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: My garden is confused. First there is a cold snap, then the autumn went warm, and now it is cold ag … more →
crab
colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We three love crab, and I bought one from the fish van. Crab is great, tasty, sweet, low fat, and su … more →
productive weekend
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: We always seem to be overloading ourselves with jobs to be done, always running to catch up. So we d … more →
equinox and foraging
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Today is the autumn equinox, and despite the pleasant warm weather we have been happening – th … more →
the pigs are gone
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Loading them up was a little difficult – our cunning arrangement of outer gate meets inner gat … more →
sweetcorn
colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been muttering lately that it wasn’t worth growing sweet corn – the full size … more →
harvesting, preserving
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: It must come to an end soon – all the harvesting, and storing of the produce. We seem to spen … more →
clearing up in the calm
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Pretty hideous weather yesterday; this morning sunshine – although there were just enough show … more →
bluster
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Really blustery today, but thankfully dry. It did mean we lost some of the damson crop – the e … more →
already autumn
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: I like this time of year, wandering around the perimeter of our land, gathering blackberries from th … more →
red cabbages badgers and foxes
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: We harvested the rest of the red cabbages today as far from allowing them to get bigger, leaving the … more →
flu
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Some Dr once said how to tell if you had ‘flu or a cold – was to imagine that there was … more →
as one door closes...
colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Well another door is made. What we mostly did today was make a new shed door. Because the old one w … more →
harvest time
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: Well, after a full week of potato digging, that’s them all lifted. Just have to sort and store … more →
mud
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: It would rain, of course. Because rain makes it even more important that we get the spuds up, in the … more →
a blighted day
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: I have been having occasional dizzy episodes ever since the labyrinthitus issue back in the spring, … more →
the birds and the bees
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: Watching the hen and chicks gives me so much pleasure. It’s nice to have specific breeds, but … more →
