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Or is it luffa?

However you spell it, it’s that long scratchy thing you use in the bath. It’s not a sea sponge or a nasty plastic thing. It’s a sort of naked cucumber….. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you fed up with the election yet? Are you confused as to who to vote for? have you had enough of the piles of leaflets and papers that you have to recycle for all the parties?

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It’s sunny, the sky is blue and it feels warm…. I reckon it might be Spring. This is backed up by the buds opening on my blackcurrant bushes, the daffodils opening slowly round the garden and generally things starting to grow again. Read the rest of this entry »

Time to make a fresh batch of comfrey based plant food to see us over the winter. So, cleaned out the bucket and used the sludge in the bottom, diluted, to feed the pumpkins. Then cut back all my comfrey – the flowers have just about gone over now – and shredded the leaves into the bucket, it half filled it! Add a liberal layer of fresh hen poo, top up with water and leave to stew for a couple of weeks. Should be ready to give everything a couple of feeds through the winter, and start off feeding in spring.

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Finally some things are ready in my garden. We’ve been eating mixed salad leaves and using herbs for a while, and munching on handfuls of strawberries. But today I went and picked whatever was ready…

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Comfrey has been used for centuries to treat bruises, sprains, surface wounds and even to help broken bones heal more quickly in humans and animals. In ages past farmers have fed comfrey to their livestock as a preventative and spring tonic after a long, cold, dark winter standing in the mire that is England.

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If a little windy.
We’ve been in and out of the house and garden – tidying up a bit indoors and weeding, planting and sowing outside.
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No, not for you, or me, it’s for the garden. I grow my own comfrey and have 2 clumps now, accidentally as I meant to move it and obviously left a bit of root in the old spot. Ooops.

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As you know by now we have 3 rescued ex battery hens living in our back garden. They’ve been lovely to have and we’ve had regular eggs from them.

Now one is not laying at all – but I’m not bothered about her and I’m happy to carry one as a non laying passenger, after all this isn’t a commercial egg production arrangement. One lays an egg pretty much every day, she has the odd day off but again, that’s fine.

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It’s Spring Bank Holiday weekend coming up and the weather forecast is for a mixture of sun, showers and warm and cooler. What a start to what will be half term for most of us. I hope it stays dry, I want to get out in my garden.

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