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Serpentine Detached 2020 - 100 posts
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A Military Post for VE Day
07/05/2020
The clay pipe bowl was found on the Serpentine site, lying on the surface. It shows the insignia ...
Potting on
06/05/2020
Three pots of Tomato Cheetham’s Potato Leaf, all sown at the same time but potted on at different ...
Fruit status report
05/05/2020
We checked on the progress of the fruit bushes and trees today. The apple blossom is lovely and ...
Checking up on Nature
04/05/2020
After last week’s bluebells in Corbar, we took our daily walk to Cunningdale to see what was around. ...
Venus in the Garden
04/05/2020
Although we didn’t take part in Saturday’s World Naked Gardening Day, Gil recalled that we have shared our ...
From Vespers by Louise Gluck
02/05/2020
“I don’t wonder where you are anymore. You’re in the garden; you’re where John is, in the dirt, abstracted, holding ...
Bluebells
01/05/2020
As today is the first Saturday in May, it is World Naked Gardening Day. We decided we had ...
Another reason for collecting seeds
30/04/2020
Serpentine is great at saving seeds for sowing in the future, sending to Heritage Seed Library and giving ...
National Gardening Week
29/04/2020
This is a small part of the garden at our previous house near Peterborough, posted because this week ...
Planting out
28/04/2020
A few days ago, we planted out our earliest sown tomato, San Marzano, keeping one plant back to ...
Delivering to Serpentine
28/04/2020
After over six weeks of sowing and growing at “Detached”, today we were able to make a delivery. ...
Final seed sowing at Detached
27/04/2020
We are somewhere between late spring and early summer. In the last week we have seen our first ...
A signpost to unknown places
25/04/2020
In his book “The Icknield Way” poet and writer Edward Thomas wrote “Today I know there is nothing ...
Elderflower Cordial
24/04/2020
On our allowed one hour exercise walks, we are looking out for elderflower bushes ready to gather a ...
Growing in Pots and Containers
23/04/2020
We have a very exposed and windswept site (the wheelie bins have to be tied down!) and limited ...
Seedlings
22/04/2020
When Gil was Secretary of the Allotment Association, it was not unusual for a new allotment holder to ...
Seeds
21/04/2020
I found myself in the habit of just opening a packet of seeds and sowing them without giving ...
Easter Cactus
20/04/2020
Our Easter Cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaertnerii) is looking good and promising to be glorious before much longer. ...
Some plants leaving lockdown
20/04/2020
A combination of a bit of optimism and a need for space in the conservatory led us to ...
Gardening is not a hobby
18/04/2020
A truck, a spade with a jacket hanging on it, somewhere a gardener is around here at Sizergh. Professor ...
Preparing to sow
18/04/2020
We are coming to the end of the sowing season and the next couple of weeks are focused ...
Spring has reached "The Estate"
17/04/2020
Three weeks ago we posted an image of the bank that was brown and colourless. It is now ...
Soil!
16/04/2020
Creating our new growing area reminded us of the Organic Principle : “Build and Maintain Soil Health”, the ...
Why "Detached"?
15/04/2020
It is fairly self evident in that we are “detached” from the Serpentine site but the idea for the title ...
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