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The News From 2Dits Farm: People Who Grow in Glasshouses

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Sheila Gilluly

Most years, I’d be planting peas this week or next, but despite temperatures trending slowly upward, the backyard still looks like something out of Doctor Zhivago, so the annual ritual of putting those first seeds in the ground won’t be happening … Continue reading →

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Posted in Lifestyle | Tagged gardening, homesteading

Gardening: fernslayer!

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Jennifer Stevenson

When I had planted all my perennials, leaving piles of trash for the husband to rake up, I turned to the dark side of gardening: destruction.

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Posted in Lifestyle | Tagged ferns, gardening, gardens

The News From 2Dits Farm: Love Affair

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Sheila Gilluly

There’s a thing going on here at 2Dits. People talk, cars slow down to look, and I think some of the neighborhood kids have been told not to come up the driveway. You know how things are in a small … Continue reading →

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Posted in Lifestyle | Tagged flowers, gardening, roses

The News From 2Dits Farm: The Seed Order

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Sheila Gilluly

January is the month of new beginnings. For me, that means looking ahead to what I’ll grow in the garden this summer. The kitchen table is four inches deep in seed catalogues, garden journals from several years, saved seed packets, … Continue reading →

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Falling Into Harvest

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Steven Popkes

(Picture from here.) It’s harvest season on our little microfarm. Nanofarm? Postage Stamp Farm? That might be a good name for the place. We have two gardens. The main one south of the house and the east garden where the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Writing life | Tagged farming, gardening, Steven Popkes

Garden Colour

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Chris Dolley

Time for another garden post. Two weeks ago I mentioned the unusually late spring we’ve been having. Well, summer is now officially here – with the help of 20,000 druids camped out at Stonehenge to see in the Summer Solstice … Continue reading →

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The Smallholding in January

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Chris Dolley

People may be forgiven for thinking January must be a quiet month on a smallholding. Nothing’s growing, it’s freezing – what could possibly need doing? A lot. For one there’s feeding. There’s usually enough grass on our holding that we … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals, Culture, horses, Lifestyle | Tagged farming, gardening, hedges, smallholding

2012: A Strange Year in the Garden

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Chris Dolley

And what a strange year. The gardening year began with dire warnings. The winter rains have failed! We need two year’s worth of rain in the next few months or we’ll have a summer of protracted drought and water restrictions. … Continue reading →

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Reflections From The Smallholding

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Chris Dolley

by Chris Dolley Weatherwise, the last twelve months have been far from average. An exceptionally cold and snowy November/December was followed by the warmest and driest spring on record and then a cold and wet summer. It was a gardener’s … Continue reading →

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The Smallholding in May

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Chris Dolley

By Chris Dolley The warm, dry weather continues and, with it, memories of 1976. That year started like this and, then, it didn’t rain until September. Already our lawn has patches of brown in it and our water butts are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Animals | Tagged bees, gardening

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