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Serpentine Detached 2020 - 100 posts
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Putting the delivery together
14/04/2020
We are gradually bringing together the plantlets destined for transfer to Serpentine, probably towards the end of the ...
An Easter Garden
11/04/2020
A garden for Easter which Gil visited in 1986. It is the Garden at Gethsemane.
Fritillaries
11/04/2020
Here at “Detached”, we have three fritillaries in bloom. There should be a good number flowering on the ...
One of the reasons we do it
10/04/2020
Gil thought a meal of home grown would be encouraging while we wait for things to grow. Each year ...
Propagating the bromeliads
09/04/2020
Today was the day for propagating the bromeliads by splitting away the offsets from the old rosette. We ...
A lovely day for gardening!
08/04/2020
We and the plants made the most of a beautiful Spring Day. Inside, the broad beans have been ...
The No Parking Tree
07/04/2020
Edgelands is a term first used by environmentalist and author Marion Shoard in 2002 to describe areas that ...
Sowing today
06/04/2020
Today’s modest sowing went according to plan. We sowed flowers Penstemon, calendula, and Evening Primrose. The Few Evening Primrose seeds ...
Waiting.....
04/04/2020
Sunday brings our second week of the blog draws to a close and is an opportunity to look wider again. These ...
Sowing preparation and an update
04/04/2020
Saturday is sowing preparation day and we got out the bags of seeds for April. We have about 30 ...
Principles of Organic Gardening
03/04/2020
We had hoped to run a series of workshops on The Principles of Organic Gardening but these have, of course, ...
Turning the compost heap
01/04/2020
After writing yesterday’s blog, we got stuck in to the main activity of the day – the compost heap. Glad ...
Garden Organic Members' Experiment
31/03/2020
We signed up for one of Garden Organic’s annual Members’ Experiments this year and we have just received everything we ...
Mullein and its many uses
30/03/2020
We took the top off a mullein (verbascum) plant that we had missed in the garden and thought, given its ...
More growing space, more sowing
12/04/2020
Over the weekend we converted a 24ftx2ft strip of grass into growing space. Part has now been planted ...
Sowing Day
30/03/2020
As scheduled, we sowed this week’s three varieties, Campion, Cranesbill and Dwarf French Bean (DFB) French Horticultural. Campion and ...
Looking beyond the garden
28/03/2020
After a week of sowing and growing and blogging, Sunday seems a good day to look beyond the garden and ...
Preparing for Sowing
28/03/2020
Saturday is the day we prepare for sowing on Monday. We have a plan for the whole season, then for ...
The Estate
27/03/2020
Fifty years ago when I was working in Manchester, the Chairman of the Local Board of Directors, universally known as ...
A Succulent Day
26/03/2020
A Frosty start so inside work propagating succulents was a good move. But why is SCG growing succulents? We have ...
Nurture and Nature
25/03/2020
On 16th March, we sowed seed for seventeen types of tomato. We ran out of space on our heated seed ...
Tuesday 24/3/20 Succulents and Mirabilis
24/03/2020
We are due to start propagating our succulents so today we took cuttings from the stapelia and the kalanchoe. They’ll ...
News from the detached site!
23/03/2020
After three years working as Growers on the Serpentine site, we, John & Gil are confined to home as at ...
Serpentine Community Garden - Detached
20/03/2020
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