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GardenLife Beyond The GardenSara On CancerSpring Planting 2009

The Disaster.

Sara, 8 January, 2010

Thank you for allowing me my rant. I really, really needed to do that. As Juliet said in the comments, everyone deals with cancer differently, everyone suffers a different kind …

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GardenSpring Planting 2009

The Beans are in.

Sara, 21 October, 2009

One of the final seed plantings went in today (after this everything is really repeats): the bush beans. I planted out the largest of the vegetable beds with Borlotti, Erimo …

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GardenGarden PhotographsSpring Planting 2009

Peas, Sweet Potatoes and some Flowers

Sara, 26 September, 2009

It is supposed to be raining buckets this evening, so have got in early. Truly, we’ve had a magnificent lot of rain this winter – the trees should do so …

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GardenGarden PhotographsSpring Planting 2009

News from the Nursery

Sara, 12 September, 2009

Not so much time for the garden this week as I have been busy at other things, but thought I’d update you from the nursery (a.k.a. the greenhouse). I have …

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GardenSpring Planting 2009

More Spring Planting. And More Buying … oops

Sara, 4 September, 2009

I ran out of plant labels today. How could I have got through 250 so fast? So I went online to Diggers and bought a thousand more, and while I …

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GardenSpring Planting 2009The House

Spring Planting – the Melons. Seth in Hospital.

Sara, 2 September, 2009

It has been such a lovely day today! After all this glum – suddenly bright and sunny and warm. I erected a new set of shelves for the greenhouse. A …

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Kitchen & RecipesSpring Planting 2009

Frosty Wind Made Moan …

Sara, 31 August, 2009

Almost all the way back to the bleak midwinter today. I wasn’t going to write today, but we’ve had the most fabulously scary wind and I had to say somethingabout it. …

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GardenSpring Planting 2009

A Nod to the Ornamentals

Sara, 30 August, 2009

Today was spent on the ornamentals. Last night I was contemplating what to do with my spare bit of bog (did that not come out right???) and I decided a …

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GardenSpring Planting 2009The Kitchen Renovation

Mr Winter Man is Back

Sara, 27 August, 2009

Such a cold, cold, bleak snap over the past several days. Snow down into the ‘burbs, biting, vicious winds. Not that I am particularly complaining, of course, because it is …

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