Skips, wood chips and local scamps

We both had free days today, so we convened at 9am for an early start at the allotment. We wanted to make a good stab at finishing off our fruit area.
Before we got there we needed to pick up some supplies – and of course we didn’t wanna pay for them. Beener is really good [...]

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yoga, spirituality and giggles

The initial rapport that we felt with our teacher was due to the fact that he pretty much ignored us. Of course he said hello, but he didn’t want to know who we were, why we had come to his class or anything about us. That suited us fine as we could skulk to the [...]

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Organic rooting hormone – willow tea

To make a natural organic rooting powder to use when taking cuttings you will need to find a willow tree, any of the Salix species is fine.
Cut off some of this years growth, remove the leaves and cut into one inch pieces. Place these right side/way up (direction is important since rhizocaline- catalyst to promoting root [...]

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Free gardening videos/tutorials

A selection of gardening/allotmenteering videos are available to watch here.
They cover the basics of a wide variety of topics including how to harvest various fruit and vegetables, seed sowing, propagation and pruning. An encyclopedia of gardening videos for nowt.
The list of topics are:

How To Care For Your Lawn In Autumn
How To Dead Head Roses
How [...]

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Toilet roll tubes, Seeds and Forking

Hi
We always save our toilet roll tubes. But don’t throw them in the compost bin, use them as pots for sowing seeds. When you need to pot on or plant out, you can plant the tube as well, as it will rot down. This avoids disturbing the roots when pricking out. Therefore, this is a [...]

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Wise Words from Monty..

We really like Monty Don. Here is what he says about his experience of coping with depression and of course gardening, as recalled to the Daily Telegraph…
“My technique for coping with depression is shaky at best and decidedly ineffective half the time, but The first thing I do is to get outside. It doesn’t matter [...]

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Sabbatical and re-entry into the mental health system

Here is part 3 of my journey . This part of my tale charts how I struggled to find a footing in the world and to find joy in it. However the ‘happy ever after’ part ultimately became somewhat delayed as I made a slight detour into utter insanity. Part one can be found here [...]

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Ms rotavator motivator

For those of you who have never seen a rotavator in action, here is a video of me using one. For those of you who are professional/proficient – I do apologise but you should have seen me at the beginning of the day!!
As ever, all feedback welcome …..
keener

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Yoga, Kung-Fu and having a laugh!

Yoga
Yoga is something we really look forward to every week. Its not a secret that yoga promotes positive physical, mental and spiritual health.
We have looked at several blogs covering yoga, we found a lot of info out there covering the nitty gritty and the philosophy of yoga.
We had both tried various classes but never found a class or [...]

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Induction into mental health system

This blog is the second installment of a whistle-stop tour of the rise, rise and explosion of my mental health issues into relative stability and peacefulness. For the first part click here.
Where was I? oh yeah, so I began to take the prozac, I didn’t notice anything different in myself and life plodded and [...]

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