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July 1st Week: Harvesting Shallots, Potato Blight, Trinity, Jobs To Do This Week

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June, 4th Week: Red Cabbage, Watching A Drowning Bee Recover

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June, 3rd Week: Downy Mildew, A Much Needed Present, Mid-Summer In St James

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June, 2nd Week: Cylindra Beetroot, Working From Home, Weekly Jobs To Do

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June, 1st Week: Sunshine, Showers, Weeds & Tomatoes, Song Thrush

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May 4th Week: Cucumbers, Beans, Feast & Fast, Apples, 'Of the Woods'

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May 3rd Week: Succession Sowing, Bird Watching, Enjoying Pine Walk, Jobs To Do This Week

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May 2nd Week: Planting Out Kale, Looking After Water Boatmen, Christies Lane In May

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May 1st Week: Earthing Up Spuds, Greenhouse Slug Patrol, Tess' Story, Jobs To Do This Week

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April Week 4:

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April Week 3: Tending Strawberries... Kale... Carrots... Cucumbers, Swallows Above Batcombe Ridge

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April week 2: Maincrop Potatoes, Ridge Cucumbers, Coppice Street Hedge

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April Week 1: Cabbages, In The Lambing Fields

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March 5th Week: TENDING GLOBE ARTICHOKES, PLANTING FIGS, CRACKING UP

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March 4th Week: SPRING CLEANING, SECOND EARLY SPUDS, ALLOTMENT DISPUTE

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March 3rd Week: First Early Potatoes, Peppers & Tomatoes, In The Rookery

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March 2nd Week: Carrots, Spring Onions, Extract From Dirty Nails' Journal

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March 1st Week

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February 4th Week: Boosting Winter Purslane, In Praise of Sycamores

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February Week 3: Sowing Strawberries, Tending Broads

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February Week 2: Pond Action, Cabbages For Mid-Summer

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February Week 1: FROGS AND BONFIRES, CATS, ON DISTURBING A QUEEN WASP

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January Week 4: Chitting Potatoes, To Cit or Not To Chit, Badgers In January

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January, 3rd Week

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January, 2nd Week

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January, 1st week

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GROW YOUR OWN FOOD WITH DIRTY NAILS

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December week 3: Shallots, A Brief History Of Shallots, Foxes

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December, Week 2: Wasps Leafmould & Brassicas, A Brief History Of Allotments

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December, Week 1: Tending Winter Onions, Wood Ash, badgers In December

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November Week 5: Winter Digging, Soil Organic Matter

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November Week 4: In The Veg Store, Putting Globe Artichokes To Bed, Redwings & Fieldfares.

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November Week 3: Sunflowers, Teasels & Finches, Fuller's teasel, 'Jenny' Wren

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November Week 2: Winter Work, Harvesting Jerusalems, Fartichokes!, Badgers In November

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November, Week 1: Garlic, Some Facts About Garlic, Wall Pellitory

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October Week 4: Essential Greenhouse Work, Potting-on Purslane, Hogweed

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October Week 3: Autumn Sown Broad Beans & Sunday Feasts, Mealtime Magic, Hibernating Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies

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October Week 2: Looking After Purple Sprouting & Frogs, Some Facts About Broccoli, Spindle Berries

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Oct Week 1: Sorting Out The Shed; Mulching In The Veg Patch; Garden Cross (Diadem) Spiders

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Sept Week 4 Runners Greens & Comfrey

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Sept Week 3; Winter Purslane; Corn Salad; Blackbirds & Elderberries

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Sept Week 2: Leaf Mould & Compost; Some Facts About Leaf Mould; Ivy-Leaved Toadflax

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Sept week 1: Winter onions, pro's & con's of peat, slow worm babies

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Aug Week 5; Root veg, out-of-season parsnips and house martins

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Aug Week 4; Flowers In The Veg Patch

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Aug Week 3; Storing Onions & Sowing Green Manure