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Wine Bottle Bird Feeder
I’ve always had a bit of a passion for birdwatching which stems from my childhood sitting by the kitchen window recording and drawing all the bird species that visited our little semi detached garden....
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“California Dreaming”– the Californian Compost Bin
Good soil can produce good crops, but being able to make good compost can create great crops! I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with the ‘dark art’ of good compost making, and whilst what you put...
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Build a bird box!
This is a part of an old article I wrote some years back but on the request of a twitter friend Heather Wilde of @KidsNorthWest I’m uploading it here as she’s holding a bird box building party soon so...
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Wheelbarrow compost riddle & drying tray
With having a fairly large productive garden and more chickens than you can shake a stick at, we create quite a bit of garden waste, though far from ‘waste’ it is, as we compost just about everything...
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Apple Tree Recovery – Pruning & how to revive an old tree
When we moved here some years back we were presented with quite a wilderness. The house was just about to reach at least its second dereliction in as many decades and the garden was in need of some...
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Fence Pole Table (to go with the Fence Pole Bench)
A bit ago on this blog I showed you how to knock together a cheap but very weather resistant garden bench using fence poles and some yorkshire board using nothing much more than a chainsaw, a hammer...
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Homemade Fertilizers – Comfrey, common nettles & chicken crap
The use of fertilizers in the garden is an essential part of having a successful productive garden. Growing crops or plants uses up minerals in the earth and over time the soil will need replenishing....
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Green Roof for the Chicken Coop
Every now and then I’m given a chicken house to put through some field trials and as a consequence I can end up with quite a few ‘buildings’ covering the field. It was on one such coop I figured I try...
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Winter pruning of blackcurrants
A well managed blackcurrant bush can provide quite a harvest in the year with more than enough to meet the need of the kitchen and very often surplus to freeze for the winter months. If left to their...
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‘Bootifully’ Easy Boot Projects
The wet winter months usually mean a return to more sturdy footwear for gardening, and quite often a return to not-so-stylish muddy platform heels! I wouldn’t describe ourselves as being particularly...
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Make more of your chicken ark
Theres quite a wealth of chicken houses out on the market and if you are reading this then you’ll know thats quite probably because keeping poultry at home is a booming hobby/ lifestyle choice. The...
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Green Roof for the Chicken Coop
Every now and then I’m given a chicken house to put through some field trials and as a consequence I can end up with quite a few ‘buildings’ covering the field. It was on one such coop I figured I try...
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14 Creative Ways To Reuse Empty Wine Bottles
I guess it’s not every day you pop up in the Huffington Post 14 Creative Ways To Reuse Empty Wine Bottles. Some nice ideas in here but really, do I need instructions on how to make a wine bottle into...
View ArticleThe Doorstep Allotment
Whilst getting my haircut the other day (yes I still have some worthy of cutting) I got chatting with the barber (well she's a skilled hairdresser actually, it's just her skill would be wasted on my...
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