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Garden & Pond
News of plants, toads, fish, trains and anything else growing on my patch of land.
Eating in Little Storping-in-the-Swuff
The village of Little Storping has only one pub, the Jolly Ploughman. Don’t be put off by the sinister barman or the strange locals. Head on over and see the […]
Frogwatch Abroad
That’s abroad in the sense of “out and about” not in another country. Although come to think of it, it was another country. And it’s not a frog, it’s a […]
Salad
It’s time for the previously mentioned salad now the tomatoes are ripening. The salad is entirely grown in my garden. As well as the tomatoes, there’s the basil (now outdoors), […]
Dead Frog
Not a pleasant post, I fear, but in Little Storping we will not shy away from the truth. It’s a barely recognisable dried out husk, looks a little like a […]
Basil
Growing on the window sill: The other ingredient for the aforementioned
Tomatoes
Almost all the flowers have turned to fruit: This splendid little pot-grown plant is a bush tomato. The side shoots don’t need pinching out, in fact no pruning is necessary. […]
Water Flowers
Little flowers growing in the pond… Watercress. Water Forget-Me-Not. Both of them spread vigorously, although at least the Watercress confines itself to the ponds!
Dragonfly: A Correction
After the England match on Sunday, while the pies are heating up, we stroll out into the garden. Two of my friends started arguing, not over whether Beckham’s wonderful goal […]