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Website title: Reclaiming Paradise – Tales from an organic gardener

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I’ve not done much – well in fact not done anything- in the garden and allotment since New Year. It’s been too cold and dark and I’ve been back at work. But I have spent quite a lot of time looking at the garden, watching the birds mostly. I don’t usually feed them because I don’t want to encourage rats and squirrels. For more on not squirrels specifically see


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And so we come to the end of another year, a quarter of a century into the 2000s. The millennium seems like only yesterday but there we go. Now it’s time to celebrate all that has gone well and what has struggled in the garden and allotment this year. There were two major events which have dominated my gardening this year: the


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So we’re through Christmas and planning for New Year, in that lull time, recently labeled ‘Betwixtmas’.

For Christmas itself, my sons and daughter-in-law took over the kitchen, bringing whole new traditions to the festive table. I sneaked in some home grown apples and raspberries for breakfast, as well as the last Christmas Pippin for lunch and more apples and some...


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Christmas Eve

It’s Christmas Eve and the sun is beginning to set on a beautiful winter day. An added bonus today was my son turning up with extra height and DIY skills to make a start on fixing the tumbledown greenhouse at the allotment. I’d been out earlier in the week to get some replacement plastic panes and bits of wood to hold things in place. It all proved to be a little more complic...


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Nearly there

Well, November felt pretty miserable here at Reclaiming Paradise but December has, so far been worse. I’ve been struggling with a health thing for a couple of months, then beginning to feel a wee bit better and now flu has struck. I don’t think I’ve had flu before but, I’m telling you, I’ll be first in line for the vaccine next year

I’m not quite old enough for the ...


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