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Funny weather, or what?

Cool and alternating sun and heavy rain: today just overcast, but not at all the feel of August. My son says it's always sunny for Reading Festival so it should be fine, but heavy rains prevented us working for a large part of last week. Not good: we need to bank a little fat to get us through the winter and we wont at this rate.

I have half a dozen garden designs to present to clients over the bank holiday weekend so I'm being gentle on myself between visits. I have been out in the dsiplay gardens clipping hedges of Santolina, Box and Lavander which line some of the pathways. Easy work and I now smell like a Poodle Parlor.

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• #2 Comment from rsusieq
  27/08/05 21:09 | Permalink

  had dispointing cucumbers this year developer a fungus which looked  like dust and only produce only a smal number of cucumbers had to clean them before eating and throw the plant away never mind will try again next year  enjoy your garden page
• #1 Comment from ally123130585918
  27/08/05 14:40 | Permalink

  Hello Colin - if you had told me it was November I would have believed you...funny old weather.
  
  I am taking your advice - bought 8 bags bark and compost and the tubs in the garden I am emptying onto our soil.   We have a quarter of an Acre of Garden most of it is lawn.  My daughter calls our soil CLAGGY - not a real word, but it does describe our soil.....Ally