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don’t do anything until you have to and then only do the minimum

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Anni Kelsey

I am working on a new book and hence all my writing effort has gone into that and there just hasn’t been sufficient spare time to keep this blog up to date.   Nor has there been much time to spend … Continue reading →

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Garden journal – 6 October 2017

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

I did some ‘work’ in the garden today.  Not counting minor interventions like taking off dock leaves and flowering stems it was the first time I had done anything since pruning the fruit trees and removing the flowering stems from … Continue reading →

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Summer time ….

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

….. and despite the largely cool, cloudy and damp weather the garden is singing to me. We have eaten the offerings of the berry and currant bushes. The tree fruits are ripening on their as yet slender boughs.     … Continue reading →

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Tiny fruit trees – summer 2017

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

I am growing the fruit trees in my garden as ‘tiny fruit trees’ according the to method of Anne Ralph and as described in previous posts here and here. All these fruit trees are planted in polycultures of other fruits, … Continue reading →

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The ‘Garden Room’ border

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

In permaculture edges are regarded as valuable spaces, having the properties of the two areas they border.  Most of my growing spaces could be regarded as edges, but in particular those round the house.  All the way round the sides … Continue reading →

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Pennard Plants

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

The range of suppliers that provide interesting heritage and perennial vegetables is increasing all the time.  I used to survey all the companies I knew of each year to provide a summary for readers but that would be too big … Continue reading →

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Time to prune the tiny fruit trees

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

On or after the solstice is the time to prune fruit trees according the method I am following from Ann Ralph’s ‘Grow a Little Fruit Tree’ book.  So now time like the present – I have been in the garden … Continue reading →

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Tiny fruit trees

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

Last year I planted seven new fruit trees.  I desperately wanted to have lots of different types and searched for a means of making sure they were small trees.  Clearly you can choose dwarfing rootstocks but those I had planted … Continue reading →

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Oca in a pot and in shade

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Anni Kelsey

Oca growing in a pot with some lathyrus tuberosus (earth nut pea) looked lovely during the summer and produced 401 g of tubers for a single plant.  What’s more they were packed into the pot like sardines and were all a good … Continue reading →

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