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Gardening diary with notes & tips from an organic gardener in Oxford 

Recycle Week

Gardeners are being asked to give their unwanted or unused electricals a new lease of life during Recycle Week which is taking place between 21 - 27 June 2010.

Items such as lawn mowers, strimmers and power tools can be recycled at centres across the country.

Those in working order can be donated to the British Heart Foundation’s network of over 90 furniture and electrical stores (recycle_week/bhf) who will test them and sell them in order to raise funds. If there isn’t a store nearby, there is the option of donating them to someone else through sites such as Freecycle (http://www.uk.freecycle.org/).

To find out more about Recycle Week please visit http://www.recyclenow.com/recycle_week/gardening.html

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Protecting the courgettes from the late cold

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Late onion sets in today

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60 stuttgarter riesen, from homebase

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Potato planters from Breakthrough

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First carrots in - Kingston

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Apple blossom

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This is the gorgeous blossom on our Scrumptious apple, planted just last autumn. Mm106 rootstock.

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We love freecycle :)

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Our new water butt, c/o a generous person on freecycle!

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Courgettes planted out

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Taken just show we can show how big they end up getting :-)

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Things done this weekend (2/25 April)

  • Got rid of the shrub by the Ceanothus, and put a support up for the Ceanothus.
  • Started to clear the random stuff at the bottom of the garden
  • Tagged the tulips
  • Potted on various tomatoes.
  • Lots of blossom on the falstaff apple in the front and the cherry in the back.

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More greenhouse pottings

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Lots of things here - toms, squash, peppers, larkspur, marguerite, marigolds, chillies, petunias, 

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