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Week 31: The last garden bed

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Christie

We’ve made our 72nd – and final – garden bed! On Monday morning, with six beds to go, Alex declared […]

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Week 30: Planning continues

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Christie

A happy feature of winter is that even though mornings are chilly there is genuinely indoor work to do while […]

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Week 29: Watching the water

June 29, 2020August 27, 2020 Christie

The week began with what felt like two days of continuous rain. According to the rain gauge (which I think […]

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Week 28: Hiding inside productively

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Christie2 Comments on Week 28: Hiding inside productively

We had a range of wintry weather this week. Cold nights brought frost on Tuesday and Wednesday. There were blustery […]

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Week 27: A third row of beds and a frosty Friday

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Christie

The end of bed-making (the vegetable kind) is closer with Alex finishing the back row of beds this week. Happily […]

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Week 26: Winter already

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Christie

We’ve very quickly found ourselves halfway through our first year and beginning our first winter. That said, it’s not been […]

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Week 25: First frost and more beds

June 1, 2020June 2, 2020 Christie

This post should be beginning with the first frost of the season and beautiful pictures of crystallised water droplets on […]

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Week 24: Creating compost

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Christie

Good quality compost is crucial for the growing principles we’re trying to follow and so building our composing system this […]

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Week 23: Planning and planting

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Christie10 Comments on Week 23: Planning and planting

“Next season” had seemed so distant and abstract in summer and even though it’s still on the other side of […]

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Week 22: Experiments and puzzles

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Christie2 Comments on Week 22: Experiments and puzzles

This first mini-season was always designated for learning as much as we could while we set things up for the […]

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