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Tag Archives: crops
Wordless Wednesday – Field Beans in the Borders?
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Posted in Food, Wordless
Tagged crops, Farming, Field beans, Gardening, Photography, scented flowers, vicia faba
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Wordless Wednesday – Linseed: One of the prettiest crops
Posted in Flowers, Sadie, Wordless
Tagged countryside, crops, Farming, Flax, Gardening, Linseed, Linum usitatissimum, Photography
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Will you go a-wassailing?
Do you want to ‘wake up’ some apple trees, so that you get a brilliant crop this year? Then you need to go a-wassailing and tonight is the night to do it. Twelfth Night, the evening of 5th January, is … Continue reading
Posted in Drinks, History, Whimsy, Winter
Tagged agriculture, apples, cider, crops, Gardening, good health, Harvest, nature, orchards, perry, productiviy, tradition, Twelfth Night, wassail bowl, wassailing
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It’s Raining Walnuts ….
If you are lucky enough to have a walnut* tree in your garden or, perhaps even better, if you know someone who has a walnut tree in their garden (they are pretty large trees after all), now is the time … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Nature, Trees
Tagged crops, delicious, English walnut, fresh, Gardening, Harvest, Juglans regia, Persian walnut, Walnuts, wet walnuts
8 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – 29/07/2015 – Summertime, an’ the livin’ is easy
Posted in Nature, Plants, Wordless
Tagged crops, Fenland, Harvest, Oats, ripe, Ryle telescope, Summertime
6 Comments
Bumbling towards summer
Yesterday I was planting out some of the flowers and vegetables bursting from their modules in the greenhouse. So I was head down in the borders and beds for much of the day. There was a lot of humming going … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, The home garden
Tagged Bees, Bumblebees, crops, Insects, nature, pollination, Wildlife
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