The first frost of this Autumn, in Dorset anyway, was on Sunday. Sunday was also my birthday. Do these 2 things occurring on the same day have any significance? Is it like the groundhog thing? Probably not, it just shows that winter is on the way so it's best to be prepared.
If you get some of those dull jobs done now, such as digging over, then you don't have to do them in the middle of the cold, cold winter and that is why I spent about 6 hours last Wednesday moving my raised beds.
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I come before you to report a rare success today. I have been a little failure heavy recently but some things are going alright.

 I have finally managed to get some carrots seeds to germinate. I know that this is usually very easy for most people but I seem to have a problem with them and I don’t know why. Anyway this is my 3^rd lot of seeds and some of them have germinated, this makes me very happy. Look at their tiny little gr...

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Whilst some of you are out setting fire to the, recently built, homes of hedgehogs and throwing an effigy of a Roman Catholic, as someone on radio 4’s PM described your bonfire’s Guy (terrorist my friend, terrorist), on top, I have a question for those who have remained indoors. A question that the internet failed to answer. Ok, it was a very, very quick search, whilst at work this morning but still, no answer. I did find the a...

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I have noticed that I have been a bit moany recently so I have decided to be...

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