Spade Work : From Plot to Plate

Organic gardening and vegetable growing within flooding distance of the Thames, weekend allotmenteering overlooking the North Downs, and tending a monastery garden.

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Growers in the UK & Europe

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  • Bliss
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Gardens to visit

  • The Chelsea Physic Garden
  • Museum of Garden History
  • The Eden Project
  • Ryton Organic Garden
  • Yalding Organic Garden
  • Audely End Organic Garden

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  • Real Seed Catalogue
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Are You in a Blogger Ghetto?

No comments? Thinking you're a Johnny-no-mates? Your address red lined? Then maybe you are in a Blogger ghetto.

I've posted before about the obstacles to commenting on Blogger (read it here).

In their typical ballsy and humorous fashion this is how Garden Rant have weighed in (read it here).

If my comments on your Blogger account have stopped now you know why!

December 18, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

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Comments

Do Blogspot blogs only allow comments from Blogger/Goggle accounts? 

That seems to be what's happpening. Yet more passwords to remember.......

December 04, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

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Dirt Sun Rain

Dirt Sun Rain. No it's not the sort of weather we've had over the last week but the return of a monumental veg grower in PA. Welcome back! But please - allow non Blogger comments!

May 11, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Tag Along

Sue from The Balcony Garden tagged me to ask for five things you don't already know about me. So here goes. You won't grow any better veg though.

1. Nickname at school - 'Bubbles' later affectionately (I like to think) shortened to 'Bubs'. Why I don't know and so far everybody has been kind enough not to tell me.

2. Announced, aged 7, to my keen gardening parents that if I ever had a house with a garden I'd tarmac the whole lot for parking. A reaction, I'm sure, to being shown the 'proper way' to water lettuce. Now I've two gardens, one allotment and occasionally help out at the Friary grounds. Who knows where life leads us?

3. I'll only use Kerrygold butter.

4. According to my wife my most annoying saying is ' " If I get one more thing done then I'll be ahead of myself " ' Why can't I just be? Well there's a risk you'll fall behind yourself and that wouldn't do! Exasperating.

5. Is it any surprise that we have seperate tools and sheds?

I'm not so sure of tagging etiquette but if you're reading this and want to join in consider yourself tagged.

January 16, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Autumn Clean Up

Over the next while I'm going to spend some time tidying up the Spade Work page, deleting links that haven't posted in a long time (except those who've said they're hibernating) and adding others I've come across.

So if you check in and find you're not listed but are still active let me know and I'll put you back!

October 25, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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