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1. Gardening: Relishing my radishes
Get Wokingham, Friday 24 May 2013The first crop from the vegetable patch has confirmed my view that this is going to be a good growing year.
2. Gardening: Pieris japonica brings a blaze of colour
Get Wokingham, Friday 17 May 2013The garden is brimming over with salmon pinks and flaming reds this week.
3. Gardening: Wooden hurdles idea for raised beds
Get Wokingham, Friday 03 May 2013My commitment to the raised vegetable patch – which wavered last year – has been re-established.
4. Reading in Bloom aims to find town's best gardeners
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 07 May 2013The call is out to gardeners across the borough to get digging and dibbling for Reading In Bloom 2013.
5. Gardening: Akebia quinata buzzing with bees
Get Wokingham, Friday 10 May 2013I was working close to the fence where the huge Akebia quinata commonly known as the chocolate vine is in flower and buzzing with bees.
6. Gardening: Wait for the soil to warm
Get Wokingham, Friday 12 April 2013Farmers used to put their bare bottoms into the soil to test whether it was warm enough to sow.
7. Gardening: Blue and green should always be seen
Get Wokingham, Friday 19 April 2013Someone in my youth used to tell me that ‘blue and green should never be seen without a colour in between’.
8. Gardening: All systems go in the garden
Get Wokingham, Friday 26 April 2013Examining the garden at the weekend I noticed two important developments.
9. Gardening: Joy of growing your own is priceless
Get Wokingham, Friday 01 March 2013Paying for £40 worth of seeds in the garden centre, I made a little joke to the man at the counter.
10. Gardening: There's a rat at my bird feeder
Get Wokingham, Friday 08 March 2013Gazing into my garden while doing some washing I spotted a member of the local wildlife eating peanuts from a bird feeder.
