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 Without wishing in any way to draw the interest from Ukveg growers website blogs, the enterprise of LILI has caught my imagniation for some years with regard to the desire for many to return to a rural and working self employed way of life, without being in the thrall of large farming enterprises themselves.

The work LILI and others are doing is different but similar to Stephen's website work so you might be interested to read these two Web pages and follow their…

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/28/tuesday-plotlines/

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/26/super-sunday/

Exactly 1 month to midsummers day and the temperature in Eastbourne today is 7c can anybody beat that? apart from the broad beans all my other plants on the plot are bewildered.

Nettles seem to be loving this cold wet weather, we have loads of them on our plot. Time to make some Nettle Soup!…

A bit of sunshine, a bit of rain and a lot of grey skies this week.  Sunday was glorious and I managed to catch up on a lot of gardening jobs.  There is so much to do at this time of year that it is hard to  know where to start.  A lot of things are ready to be planted out - I have already planted some brassicas - cabbage, broccoli - and yesterday the runner beans went out at the plot, covered with fleece and liberally sprinkled with slug pellets, just in case.…

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://www.woollygreen.com/2013/05/22/rain-rain-go-away/

...apple blossom time, although it's a bit late this year. This might be a good thing as there's plenty of blossom and plenty of insects about so things are looking good for an excellent harvest.

This is my James Grieve which is absolutely covered in flowers.…

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/20/our-plot-onion-bhajees/

Today in the south west we have got the first good fruit pollination day since 2011.

It is 60*f, and warmer would be better still.

No prime bee swarms this year; it is just  a little too late. good swarms perhaps.

I have not noticed a good prime swarm year for many years, but I am not involved any more.

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/15/sowing/

Wet and then dry as life springs forth…

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/14/feeling-spring/

A new post over at Southbourne Gardens http://southbournegardens.com/2013/05/13/forget-me-nots/

We had the first of the new potatoes today - nearly a fortnight later than the last two years but not surprising given the cold spring.

The variety is Home Guard and they tasted lovely but the yield was poor compared to my favourite Lady Christl. I suppose I…

I had a great time there on Thursday. I've done a round up of blog posts I've found over the weekend giving you a flavour of what there was this year.

http://malvernmeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/yesterday-at-malvern.html

Here's a view of the auricula theatre display in the Flower Marquee to tempt you over...…