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Potting heaven: my dream secret shed

August 12, 2015 by Catherine 2 Comments

st anns allotments

I am a gardener.  I love my garden and I garden most days, certainly every week.  So if I asked you to guess what is in my garden shed you would logically assume it was pretty much dedicated to gardening equipment, right ? Wrong. Here's what's inside our garden shed: Bike x 6 (but only 4 people in our family) Kids' bike seats, spare bike wheels, bike rack for car (can you see a pattern emerging here?) Huge shelving unit full of paint ...

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Filed Under: Garden Design Tagged With: design, Garden, Planning, Project, Shed, storage, Tools

Raised bed rejuvenation

March 5, 2015 by Catherine 22 Comments

Spring raised bed narcissus

I think we’ve all got a spot in our garden that niggles at us.  This week I’ve been tackling the one that’s been niggling at me for about 5 years now! We don’t have a garden at the front of our house, but there is a small raised bed which we look out onto from the lounge.  This bed was home to a very stubborn ivy which was always engulfing the gatepost, and the soil was constantly escaping through the stones onto the drive. I wanted to ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Garden, HDYGG, Moss, Planting, Plants, Project, Raised bed, Spring

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