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      Move, lose or Chelsea chop? Move, lose or Chelsea chop? We spent some time in the vegetable garden this week.  Comprising more than twenty small raised beds, it’s taken a bit of a back seat in recent weeks and needed some serious attention.  We hand weeded the wood chip paths and were very happy to see...
      Bad hare day Bad hare day We’ve been having suspicions for a few weeks.  Bark stripped off a pair of Magnolia stellata, a ground cover rose relieved of all its buds, little scuffs dug out around the fruit trees, and finally a clear view of it walking past the garden gate as...
      Chelsea Results Chelsea Results No not the latest football scores!  We’ve already mentioned how organised we’ve been this year with our mulching and timely staking.  Another job we carried out was the much vaunted ‘Chelsea chop’  Around late May, usually when the Chelsea Flower Show is on, the stems...
      Working around Working around This week was particularly busy with an upcoming photoshoot looming and everything working around the unpredictable weather.  With heavy rain from the start we spent time in the greenhouse potting on tomatoes, aubergines, and peppers and moving them into the adjacent greenhouse accommodation.  All this could...
      A new leaf bin A new leaf bin With the imminent arrival of autumn we thought we’d better construct a new bin for the abundance of fallen leaves that we get here at Genus HQ.  The upright wooden posts of the MK1 version had become rotten at ground level and a replacement was required. ...
      Full of the joys Full of the joys We’ve been wanting to enlarge one of our flower beds for some time and with beautiful weather still on the cards we decided to start work.  The rather rotten wooden edging came out easily along with a few large rocks that we discovered during the...