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October 2015 – Tales from the summerhouse
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Tales from the summerhouse. A gardener's diary. A poem for a frog. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Magnesium deficiency and bay leaf sucker. Lots of apples and strong growing tomatoes. Now the results of some of my crops. Broad beans did well with just a hint of that pest, black fly. At the end of the crop. Dwarf French beans were punished by the weather and despite resowing in the gaps the crop was poor although it did improve late in the season when the weather improved. Underestimating the growth of m...
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Garlic spray and cucumber wilt – Tales from the summerhouse
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Tales from the summerhouse. A gardener's diary. A poem for a frog. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Magnesium deficiency and bay leaf sucker. Lots of apples and strong growing tomatoes. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Well here I am again. Yesterday I made more garlic spray. The discarded runner beans with a pathetic tomato. I mentioned in my blog of 15th July. That I had extended my comfrey/nettle experiment to them and so far the courgette fed on tomarite is away ahead of the comfrey/nettle one having p...
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Season’s end – Tales from the summerhouse
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Tales from the summerhouse. A gardener's diary. A poem for a frog. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Magnesium deficiency and bay leaf sucker. Lots of apples and strong growing tomatoes. Now the results of some of my crops. Broad beans did well with just a hint of that pest, black fly. At the end of the crop. Dwarf French beans were punished by the weather and despite resowing in the gaps the crop was poor although it did improve late in the season when the weather improved. Underestimating the growth of m...
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August 2015 – Tales from the summerhouse
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Tales from the summerhouse. A gardener's diary. A poem for a frog. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Magnesium deficiency and bay leaf sucker. Lots of apples and strong growing tomatoes. A poem for a frog. The broad beans are gone now and as they are of the legume family (which includes peas) they developed nodules. I was complaining about how poor these were this year but the better August weather has revived them and I am harvesting them again. In the open garden one of my favourite flowers is the dahlia...
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SAGE(S) Advice: Fieldwork, Gender & Careers
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SAGE(S) Advice: Fieldwork, Gender and Careers. The blog is evolving. July 5, 2016. Last week Hilary and I travelled to Sheffield. To collect SAGES Silver Athena SWAN award. Thank you and congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make this possible! With our Athena SWAN awards – Louise Jones, Hilary Geoghegan (SAGES) and Joanne Elliott (Chemistry). Athena SWAN Award Ceremony today! June 30, 2016. Look out for photographs and updates to follow………. June 29, 2016. 8216;As part of plans put forward by...
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A Caversham Garden: Tea Bag Index (TBI) UK
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Growing food in a town garden. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Tea Bag Index (TBI) UK. There are several experiments running across the world and Sarah put out a call for people to participate in the UK project. The lawn was not an option for me. We do have a small patch of grass but the tea bags have to be buried about 3 inches deep and at 1.5 inches under our lawn you hit builders rubble! So, I decided to put the first pair in the middle of my herb patch. I don't add any compost or fertiliser to this ar...
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Planting teabags – Tales from the summerhouse
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Tales from the summerhouse. A gardener's diary. A poem for a frog. Garlic spray and cucumber wilt. Magnesium deficiency and bay leaf sucker. Lots of apples and strong growing tomatoes. Where blogs are written. I find that this is a great place for writing my blog. Now for my garden. Broad beans are more or less finished and when removed I will replace with Autumn planting Japanese onion sets, shallots and garlic. I sourced an offer of all three with a free bottle of onion fertiliser from Marshalls. Are a...
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A Caversham Garden: August 2015
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Growing food in a town garden. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Tea Bag Index (TBI) UK. There are several experiments running across the world and Sarah put out a call for people to participate in the UK project. The lawn was not an option for me. We do have a small patch of grass but the tea bags have to be buried about 3 inches deep and at 1.5 inches under our lawn you hit builders rubble! So, I decided to put the first pair in the middle of my herb patch. I don't add any compost or fertiliser to this ar...
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The Muminator: July 2015
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Friday, 31 July 2015. Blue Reef Aquarium and Dockyard. About half way around the aquarium is a lovely play area for children, with even a little cafe to buy lollies and snacks. We had our picnic and the girls enjoyed 3/4 of an hour play. Sadly, I hadn't thought about swimming costumes or a towel so just told them not to get too wet. That worked.not! Never mind, I'm sure they'd dry off as we walked along the seafront in the sunshine. Not really too worried about doing this again as we've seen it a few tim...
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