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Friday, August 03, 2007
These boots were made for planting
I recently got a new pair of army boots. The last pair lasted me five years, and I expect the ame from these. However, I couldn't just throw the old ones out, that seemed like a waste. I had to find a new use for them.
Turning them into plant pots was an obvious move.
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I recently got a new pair of army boots. The last pair lasted me five years, and I expect the ame from these. However, I couldn't just throw the old ones out, that seemed like a waste. I had to find a new use for them.
Turning them into plant pots was an obvious move.
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Labels: gardening, Herbs, planting, recycling, video
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Herb bed
The rain stopped long enough today to finally plant out the tomato and mint I bought a week and a bit ago. I also sowed a few seeds, we'll see how they fare. There's an empty space that's either going to get more tomatoes or another tall plant.
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The rain stopped long enough today to finally plant out the tomato and mint I bought a week and a bit ago. I also sowed a few seeds, we'll see how they fare. There's an empty space that's either going to get more tomatoes or another tall plant.
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Friday, April 14, 2006
live from the allotment
live from the allotment,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Where my glamorous assistant insisted on doing the digging. She says she offer the exercise, i think she's planning to bury someone.
One of the allotment's many old irish men came and have up advice, but his accent was so strong i didn't understand most of it.
Today's planting consists of leek and herb rocket. The former won't be done until the autumn, but the latter should be on our plates in a month or so.
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live from the allotment,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Where my glamorous assistant insisted on doing the digging. She says she offer the exercise, i think she's planning to bury someone.
One of the allotment's many old irish men came and have up advice, but his accent was so strong i didn't understand most of it.
Today's planting consists of leek and herb rocket. The former won't be done until the autumn, but the latter should be on our plates in a month or so.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
The herb garden
Hippyshopper recommends starting a windowsill herb garden. We've got one going on already, but it's fairly basic. We should visit Jekka's herb farm as well.
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Hippyshopper recommends starting a windowsill herb garden. We've got one going on already, but it's fairly basic. We should visit Jekka's herb farm as well.
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Wild Things
A fifth of British wild plants are at risk of extinction, according to a recent survey. Mostly they are threatened by changes in agriculture, and the onus is on farmers to reverse the trend, but I'm sure anyone with a big enough garden could set some of it aside as a mini meadow and do their bit.
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A fifth of British wild plants are at risk of extinction, according to a recent survey. Mostly they are threatened by changes in agriculture, and the onus is on farmers to reverse the trend, but I'm sure anyone with a big enough garden could set some of it aside as a mini meadow and do their bit.
Threatened flora
Among plants not before classified as at risk but now threatened are:
Ranunculus arvensis - corn buttercup (critically endangered). A very attractive annual buttercup with small yellow flowers, it came to Britain with Roman farmers.
Papaver argemone - prickly poppy (vulnerable). A small, brightly flowered poppy which has not yet made the jump to waysides and road verges as the common poppy has.
Silene noctiflora - night-flowering catchfly (vulnerable). Its creamy-white flowers are semi-closed during the day, but at night reopen fully and emit a strong scent to attract insects.
Astragalus danicus - purple milk-vetch (endangered). Found along the east coast from Scotland to Lincoln and East Anglia.
Euphrasia anglica - eyebright (endangered). Its tiny white flowers are blotched with yellow and purple like a bruised eye. Compresses and tinctures from it were used to treat many eye disorders.
Monotropa hypopitys - yellow bird's-nest (endangered). An odd-looking perennial herb that lives on dead and decaying plant material in the soil.
Polystichum lonchitis - holly fern (vulnerable). An evergreen alpine fern that is small but long-lived. Small populations in Wales and the Lake District; more frequent in the Scottish uplands and western Scotland.
Cuscuta epithymum - dodder (vulnerable). An annual, rootless, twining and scrambling herb which is a parasite, attaching itself to its host by small suckers that remove water and nutrients.
Gentianella campestris - field gentian (vulnerable). A biennial or annual herb with attractive, purply-blue flowers. It is locally common in northern England and Scotland, but absent from most of south and central Britain.
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