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At last, a few hours working in our own breezy but dry vegetable garden.<\/p>\n

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There’s nothing like a rant, rave & wrestle with a vegetable bed full of creeping buttercups to clear the mind, or the satisfaction when the job’s finally finished!<\/p>\n

Three beds have now been cleared of kale and sprouts stalks in readiness for the onions and root veg.<\/p>\n

The barrow loads of pernicious scutch grass and buttercup<\/a> wont be heading for the regular compost bins <\/a>(don’t want them multiplying in there) but to the big heap in the corner of the garden.<\/p>\n

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It was lovely to get some help from our nine-year old too. She was looking for a job so I suggested she plant the garlic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She read the packet, split the bulbs, spaced all the cloves ready for planting and marked the rows. She then exclaimed “when I grow up mammy, I’m going to marry a man who’ll grow our vegetables for us”<\/em>\u00a0slightly puzzled at her ‘traditionalist’ outlook I ask her “why wont you grow them all yourself”<\/em>, “oh I’ll be busy doing something worthwhile, like rescuing wild animals or dogs tied to posts”<\/em> she replied… hmm, not sure what to make of that!<\/p>\n

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Hope we get a few more dry days as lots more gardening to catch up on after the last wet or frosty months. How are your spring garden preparations going?<\/p>\n

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