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John the Gardener

John the Gardener

http://johnthegardener.blogspot.com

Follow our gardening year from a small garden attached to a mid-terraced house in England. Read about our ups and downs growing vegetables, fruit herbs and flowers.

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  • Spring jobs in the herb garden.

    Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 07:32 in growing herbs

    I have tidied up the herb bed and given it a good mulch, the Jasmine has plenty of new growth, rosemary is thriving as is the chive. The oregano is emerging, no sign of the sage yet. The green pot contains self-seeded tarragon....

  • Clearing Weeds

    Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 10:27

    Today I have been clearing weeds from the veg patch ready for some planting. Robert has been helping, there's his spade.The compost bin is full, ready for digging in. The water butt is also full.Plenty of worms and slugs are out and about plus a snai...

  • New Growth

    Posted on Saturday March 29th, 2008 at 07:10

    After all the wind and snow has subsided I can see little things growing in every corner of the garden. The London Pride looks fresh and green and random Snap Dragons are appearing where they have self-seeded. The blackcurrant has new leaves and righ...

  • What Are They?

    Posted on Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 09:45

    I was wondering if anyone out there on the blogosphere can name these flowers. I spotted them while we were on holiday in Devon and so far I cannot figure out what they are called....

  • Did the Earth Move?

    Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 11:58 in weather

    A few days ago, we had an earth tremor. The whole house shook. I had just gone to bed when it happened. Most people slept through it.Nothing to do with gardening per se but I thought I'd record it for posterity anyway....

  • Tomatoes

    Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 11:40 in growing veg

    Well, its the1st of March and pretty soon, the clocks will be going forward an hour to put us into British Summer Time once more.The first thing I do in March is to plant tomato seeds to stick in the greenhouse for summer.I'm thinking of trying the n...

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ritchiem

4 stars Richard Murphy

Nice content, I like the header image. Keep up the good work.

Richard Murphy
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Attractive layout & graphics with pleasant chatty posts combined with plenty of information. Very good blog for gardeners and nice to visit even if your not :-)

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