Ain’t you never seen two ladies shovelling s**t before!!

We are very lucky to have access to a constant supply of well-rotted horse manure. To achieve this I can thoroughly recommend widening your social circle to include farmers/stable owners. Don’t ask me how – all I can suggest is google it – someone may have written a more detailed action plan somewhere – you [...]

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We’re still allotment junkies

What can we say – its been a while…
The break from allotmenteering blogging is not due to a lack of allotment activity – quite the opposite. We have been very busy – sowing and planting, procuring useful items, digging couch grass out and dig, dig, digging.
Obviously we are well into Spring and the growing season, [...]

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FREE Garden Birds Feeding Guide

Garden Bird Supplies are currently offering a booklet entitled The Garden Birds Feeding Guide for free. Looks like its for UK residents only..
The RSPB are still offering their booklet ‘Birds in your garden’ for free too.

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Hotel for the mentalists

This post tells more about my experience of withdrawal from the antidepressant, Effexor, and my less than positive experiences in the mental health system.
A quick recap first. At this point in my story I am in severe Effexor withdrawal – I was psychotic, manic, physically ill and volatile. In the space of a few hours [...]

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Stop property developers destroying gardens

Garden Organic (the working name for Henry Henry Doubleday Research Association) have launched a campaign to stop ‘garden grabbing’ by property developers.
Basically, this is where developers snap up a large detached property and then get rid of it. The land is then fully built on to create a load of new houses (small, rubbish ones [...]

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Children and Psychiatric drugs

The Drugging of our Children  is a documentary film highlighting the increasing pathologisation of child-hood and the use of psychotropic drugs to ‘cure’ these ‘conditions’. An increase in violence, suicide and psychosis has been some of the results of this.
The documentary explores safer and more humane ways of helping little ‘uns to cope with mental [...]

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Handy free seed envelope templates

When we are at the allotment sowing seeds, we tend to use a few from the packets and are left with the trouble of storing the ones we save.
We found the packets tend to get muddy and wet.  Whenthat happens we just dry the seeds out and pop them in these handy little seed envelopes.
You can [...]

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Magpie attacks and seeds

It has been gorgeous today in Bristol – blue skies and you could feel the warmth of the sun on your back. There was a bit of coat on, coat off action going on.
When we got to the plot today, two magpies were nosing about on out plot. I got excited and reminded myself of [...]

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Chance to win Gardening Gloves

CMS On-line Garden Centre are holding regular free draws to win a pair of gardening gloves. They ask you to sign up for occasional email updates of speical offers, but there is an opt-out if you so choose.
I’ve no idea what type of glove they are or how regular they hold the draw lol, [...]

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Photography and Gardening competitions

Bakker, a gardening mail order competition, have a competition every month. This months prize is 10 vouchers worth £15. The question ain’t tricky!
Bakker are also holding a photography competition, with the categories of flowers, plants, borders and gardens. The prize is £350. You have got until 25th May 2007 to get your photos in.
Good Luck!

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