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281. From now on it’s the killing fields at Chez Fort
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 19 August 2008My mission this weekend is to keep the vegetable patch going over the winter.
282. Flower ’bout opening your garden to public?
Get Wokingham, Friday 08 August 2008It takes a particular kind of gardener to decide to open his or her garden to the public.
283. Good scents prevail – as borough blooms blossom
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 29 July 2008The borough council’s parks and gardening staff have been giving me great pleasure recently.
284. Cor – loads of courgettes!
Get Wokingham, Friday 18 July 2008My tiny vegetable patch is rejoicing in its first glut and it feels like a biblical year of plenty.
285. Raising awareness to accept skin condition
Get Wokingham, Monday 14 July 2008It is the condition which turned Michael Jackson’s skin white and a Coley mum would like everyone to understand more about it.
286. Flower ’bout that for taste in salads – nasturtium
Get Wokingham, Friday 04 July 2008Nasturtiums held a great fascination for me as a child because I was told you could eat them.
287. Supreme Sardines
Get Wokingham, Monday 23 June 2008There was a time in this food-phobic nation of ours when the only sardines to be had were released from a tin with a special key.
288. Basil – for taste of the Mediterranean
Get Wokingham, Monday 23 June 2008The weighty novels of the 19th Century occasionally refer to basil as flourishing when grown in dead men’s brains.
289. Yet another snail in the coffin of my aubergines
Get Wokingham, Friday 20 June 2008Vigilence in the vegetable plot is what is needed at the moment – always a hard task for the weekend gardener.
290. ‘Patty’s Plum’ poppy is so lovely I want to sing
Get Wokingham, Friday 13 June 2008Whenever I hear the name Gordon Brown the next line “texture like sun” comes unbidden into my head.
