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“Incubating Spring’s in the air – at last – and lo and behold we have a ...”

“Rhubarb Last year I planted a Rhubarb plant. Big deal, you may say. But really, it ...”
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“Laila "Hi Bridget, How's your gardening life going? Here we've had a few days of sunshine followed ...”
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“ Have you heard of Pinterest? It is like an online scrapbook where you can put ...”

“Recycling I've just made a bird bath out of an old, galvanised steel incinerator lid (the ...”
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“A few weeks ago I wrote that I had ordered new worms for my wormery ...”
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“Chickens Our flock of chickens is down to seven – six hens plus a cockerel and ...”
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“Our fan-tastic fig tree Four years ago my brother gave us a very small (and rather ...”
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“This is a foolproof roasted tomato sauce recipe. Once you've tasted it, you will never ...”
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“Many happy returns... It's my birthday today (don't ask...) and a friend of mine sent me ...”
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“In february we had a little project and made our own polytunnel. I promised to ...”

“Here at Sow and So we like to make things ourselves, use recycled materials and ...”

“Is your garden overrun with slugs? Then we have a great affordable idea for slug ...”

“Email conversations between Bridget and Laila, co-bloggers at SowandSo.com Laila How is the weather in Great Brittain? ...”

“Sunflower Sunflowers... they remind me of Vincent van Gogh and birds picking out the seeds. They ...”

“For me the garden is more than just a garden. Next to growing my own ...”
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“English weather It’s a well known fact that here in England we have a tendency to ...”

“In short, I don’t know how I’d manage without my fruit cage. We initially built ...”

“Have you noticed that it hasn't rained for weeks now? Do you remember it was ...”
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“We all know that flowers give a garden colour and diversity. Many flowers help attract ...”
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“There wont be a lot of posts this week on Sow and So. The reason ...”

“Email conversations between Bridget and Laila, co-bloggers at SowandSo.com Laila "I am thinking of planting out my ...”

“We want to be self sufficient some day and one of the best ways to ...”

“If someone should ask me right now what I want to do with the rest ...”

“Green Roof We decided to create a green roof on top of our rammed earth Eco-Shed ...”

“A few weeks ago we made a moveable polytunnel and I promised to let you know how ...”

“It's the first day of spring!! We've been getting ready for this moment for weeks... ...”

“It’s funny how sometimes a very average day veers off in an unexpected direction and ...”
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“Laila "I just went outside to put something in the compost bin and I saw that ...”

“Yesterday I had a talk with our architect and it seems that things are finally ...”

“After Ducky No sooner had we re-homed Ducky than our neighbour came to call again. It ...”

“I've  just ordered new worms! To be honest, I bought my wormery a few years ago ...”

“A few weeks ago my heated propagator arrived in the post and last week I ...”

“Email conversations between Bridget and Laila, co-bloggers at SowandSo.com Bridget: So far I'm thoroughly enjoying my week ...”

“Box plants are quite expensive to buy but they are very easy to propagate and ...”
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“I’ve always been an animal lover but until recently could not understand how people feel ...”
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“I have had my iPhone for a while now and am always searching the app ...”

“This week I was searching the internet for an example model for making your own ...”
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“Pruning Roses Yesterday I found myself rooting out my pile of gardening periodicals to check out ...”

“ A few weeks ago I ordered a heated propagator and today I put it into ...”

“Slowly but surely my garden is emerging from the snow and ice. Some plants have ...”

“SPRING! This morning I woke up to the sound of rain and when I looked outside ...”

“Bird Varieties All female chickens lay eggs with identical nutritional content, but some bird varieties have been ...”

“Before you continue, I have to warn you, this story is smelly and dirty and ...”

“Cold It seems that I am not the only one who has suffered these last few ...”

“No Time Just a few more days and then the worst of this cold spell is ...”

“ If you want to get a head start and extend your growing season, if you ...”

“Utility Land We moved into the Villas in Autumn 2007.  The 450 square metre plot behind ...”

“It is February and in Europe we are paralyzed by a cold spell. Early morning temperature ...”

“5 Easy Steps When you are new to gardening and are planning to do your gardening ...”

“Stinging Nettles and Brown Canes We moved into our house in early winter so the piece ...”

“There are many many possibility’s of using recycled materials in your garden. It saves a ...”

“This is a post from Guestblogger Bridget Elahcene. Bridget writes about her Life At The ...”

“Weather The day started with a little fog which cleared soon enough. The strong winds we ...”
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“I have some seeds left over from last year which I wont be using this ...”

“This is a post from Guestblogger Bridget Elahcene. Bridget writes about her Life At The ...”

“January is starting of with some big storms which makes it impossible to work in ...”

“Last week the last of the snow disappeared which meant that our residential ermine was very much ...”

“From all of us at Sow and So we wish you a very Merry Christmas! ”

“This is a post from Guestblogger Bridget Elahcene. Bridget writes about her Life At The ...”

“I was just watching out of the window to see where those little escape artists ...”

“This week I bought a few gardening magazines from France and there were a lot ...”

“This weekend we had the first snow of the season. It was great!!, I don't ...”

“  Populus Tremula Erecta Earlier this year we bought a 3m high Populus Tremula Erecta (Swedish Aspen) ...”

“ When I started out with gardening I had a 4x5 meter backyard, because it was surrounded by ...”

“We have had a couple of wet stormy days here in the Ardennes these last ...”

“On a sunny but cold afternoon I finally decided on which seeds to buy for ...”
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“So this post has nothing to do at all about gardening but it is a ...”
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“This is a post from Guestblogger Bridget Elahcene. Bridget writes about her Life At The ...”

“In my family we have two plants which have been around for generations. Schlumbergera Cactus One is ...”

“ This morning I was looking out to the garden when I saw this magpie using ...”

“Someone gave me a copy of a documentary called The Gardens of Destiny. (A film ...”

“Did you know this about ladybugs also known as ladybirds or ladybird beetles? That we gardeners ...”

“Today the 5th of December we, the Dutch and Belgians are celebrating Sinterklaas. We do ...”

“This is a post from Guestblogger Bridget Elahcene. Bridget writes about her Life At The ...”

“I hear the wind howling around the house and the rain slashing against the windows. ...”
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“I never really liked pumpkins. A while back I tasted this soup in a cafe ...”

“One day John Lewis-Stempel tells his wife he will live of the land for a ...”

“A few years ago when I started with gardening I knew next to nothing about ...”

“Life at the Villas Life at the Villas sounds a bit like a book title. It's ...”
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“ I have sown yellow mustard to use as green manure. At the end of winter ...”
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“Is animal welfare guaranteed with organic food? This question has been on my mind lately. In ...”
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“This year for the first time I sowed purple sprouting broccoli. It is a variety ...”
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“Last week I wrote about bird feeders made from recycled materials. That night one of ...”
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“A little overdue since I have started blogging already but I would like to tell ...”

“My auntie Corrie sends me garden magazines from Holland now and then. Next to going ...”
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“What do you do when you have these? You search the net for a recipe and ...”
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“1: Not digging deep enough We have thick clay ground here, determined to dig the bed ...”
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“It was already a few weeks ago. I had cleaned out the garden, broke down ...”

“Kale My biggest success is my Redbor F1 Kale. The purple color looks amazing in the ...”

“Ingredients 1,5 kilo potatoes 1 kilo finely cut kale 300 grams of bacon 3 large onions 200 ml cream olive oil salt rookworst ...”
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“Hi people.., we are working hard to get this blog going. Laila is creating posts ...”
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