{"id":3305,"date":"2018-06-10T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2018-06-10T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T11:23:57","slug":"gardening-and-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"Gardening and Gin"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a freezing and miserable spring, summer has decided to be amazing, sunny, warm, dry and the best thing since I don’t know what.<\/p>\n

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Consequently I’ve had a lot more brainspace, like, enough to decant and label all the gin.<\/p>\n

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And to make some more gin.<\/p>\n

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Every opportunty is taken to do daily tasks outdoors.<\/p>\n

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Last year’s apple tree got blossoms and three actual fruits, which we took off to help it grow a bit more before it’s expected to produce.<\/p>\n

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Most of what was in what is being called the lumpy garden has survived.<\/p>\n

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The upright dwarf acer Steve gave is us absolutely thriving.<\/p>\n

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The path remains dry, flat and so damn easy to walk on!<\/p>\n

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We’ve discovered a love of tulips.<\/p>\n

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And Anna did a massive makeover of part of the raised bed.<\/p>\n

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We planted a bunch of random stuff, just to make it pretty and to get some potted stuff in the ground.<\/p>\n

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And it’s come on in leaps and bounds. The strawberries are going nuts. I am sure the birds and slugs will get them, but they’re pretty to look at.<\/p>\n

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And the smelly sherbet-orange rose is still as healthy as ever. And as pungent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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