Real Gardening in my Real Garden. A handful of freshly picked apples. If you need to pick up the manky apples under the trees, the Gardena Fruit Collector makes it so easy and less messy. The long arm of the Gardena Fruit Picker made picking those hard to reach apples easy peasy. With drops of rain beginning to fall, we carried our heavy harvest from the orchard.

Big plans for a small garden. Dahlias and a Belgian Beer. A well past due mini update. Having a garden tour and admiring our newly flowering dahlias with beer in hand. First Black Climbing Bean Crop. Spring Tidy Garden and New Shoots. Six cucumbers are sprouting so far, I.

It has been over a year and a half since my last post. This site has been sitting on a bookshelf, so to speak, collecting dust. Sitting there while I created lesson plans, graded papers, met with parents, and managed a classroom of 25 fourth graders. Sitting there while my garden withered.

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This is a good thing. It means I get to bake a Christmas cake, which is of course really quite exciting in itself. It also means I can justify writing a blog post I should have written in August. Those of you who listen to the Electric Sheep podcast. I had all the necessary kit and felt reasonably .

This is actually growing at the bottom of our garden which backs on to our allotment. It has entwined itself up the hedge and trees but is only really visible from the plot. I love the bright colour of the flowers and its heady fragrance. Whatever folklore has to say about it, I just love to have it in the garden.