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building an eco friendly lifestyle one tiny step at a time with my two kiddiwinks, my hubby and our growing flock of chickens

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@littlegreentip1
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3 years
We gained a new addition to our family this afternoon. I still can’t believe it. It’s a dream come true for me! Meet Max...
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10 months
The youngest made this stonker of a cake yesterday with minimal help. Raspberry and white chocolate. None of her friends wanted to try it. She didn’t get placed in her class bake off. I feel sad for her she should feel so proud of herself!
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
Imagine my excitement when I realise a milk carton fits perfect in a toilet roll middle… perfect compost funnel with handle. Massively speeding up the process!!! #reuse #sustainable #ecofriendly #growyourown
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
A small piece of foil can make your life SO MUCH EASIER! This foil reflects sun back to tomatoes on my windowsill. They haven’t been turned for days. And no terrible legginess to deal with either. Give it a try. #gardening #GardeningTwitter #homegrown #growyourown
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
It’s Winter! We don’t need fresh tomatoes 12 months of the year! Buy tinned or get some freshly harvested winter veg 🤦‍♀️ Wouldn’t it be nice if media used opportunity to promote local seasonal produce!!!!
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
I think 68 tomato plants will be enough won’t it??? Giving my leftovers to village plant sale tomorrow. #growyourown #GardeningTwitter #homegrown
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11 months
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@littlegreentip1
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3 years
Max is settling in so well I can’t quite believe it ❤️❤️❤️ He says good morning lovely tweeple
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@littlegreentip1
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2 months
Hubby made me tea. Think he forgot anything!????? 🤢🤢🤢
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4 months
Seriously @sainsburys what is this???
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@littlegreentip1
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2 months
I absolutely love using grape tubs as mini propagators! Who needs to buy new pots and trays….not me. They can be used over and over then rinsed and recycled. This one has perfect label holder 🤣 #reduce #repurpose #reuse #GardeningTwitter #smallholding #homegrown #growyourown
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
😂😂😂
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@littlegreentip1
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10 days
My normal Yorkie tin is in storage so I tried a big one. Bloomin heck it was spot on… Can’t go wrong with fresh eggs from the chickens!
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@littlegreentip1
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2 months
This was not in the forecast 🤦‍♀️
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3 months
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@littlegreentip1
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3 years
Anyone else spend ages moving plants in and out at the minute? This is my kitchen table overnight. I keep singing the Hokey Cokey as I do it in my head 😂
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@littlegreentip1
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4 months
Always really struggled to grow parsnips so these are a triumph! Sprouting the seeds was the key then planting in sand/compost mix stopped the forking. Bit lacking in girth but sure they’ll be delicious 🤤 #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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@littlegreentip1
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8 months
Anyone want to #ratemyplums ??? They are Victoria and absolutely delicious 🤤 #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
Thought provoking…
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@littlegreentip1
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10 months
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
Look at the amazing birthday cake kids and hubby made me. Youngest decorated it - how cute my favourite daffodils on top 🥰
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2 months
My current favourite meme. Sums up our morning here 🌧️💧🌧️☔️
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2 years
My #peonies have survived the frost and torrential rain!!! Stunning 😍 #GardeningTwitter #GardenersWorld
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@littlegreentip1
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2 months
Got a loaf of bread prooving for lunch and another in breadmaker for packed lunches this week. I want to try and get back into habit of making all our bread now I’m feeling little better. #homemade #plasticfree #ecofriendly
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1 year
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1 year
My strawberryless strawberry planter is looking quite good! Trailing nasturtiums took forever to germinate. I put some verbena in top with a small lavender. The lower holes have creeping thyme and golden sedum. #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
I planted strawberries on this posh planter 13 years ago. It was utterly useless! Any ideas what I could plant in it this year that would keep wildlife happy? Obviously it’s hard to water even with a pipe system. Help! #GardeningTwitter #gardening
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@littlegreentip1
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9 months
Just a few cucumbers 😱
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@littlegreentip1
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3 years
#DogsofTwittter love this person’s sense of humour
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
Honestly perennial fruit is the BEST investment! Strawberries coming to an end just as blueberries are starting to ripen. Hundreds of raspberries too #homegrown #growyourown #plasticfree #sustainable imagine the cost of buying this in a shop!
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
My sweetcorn are looking ridiculously healthy. Hopefully I can save my own seeds for next year from this crop 🙌 #gardening #GardeningTwitter #homegrown #growyourown #sustainable #ecofriendly
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
My first sweet pea flowers are opening! Yay!!!
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1 year
Is this enough cake???
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5 months
Genius method to stop mince pies sticking in the tin 🙌 Feeling chuffed this works 🥰 #homemade #baking #Christmas2023
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6 months
Fresh focaccia. It doesn’t get better than this 🙌 #homemade #plasticfree
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@littlegreentip1
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27 days
I’m enjoying a birthday cuppa in bed with my book. Bliss. Hope you all get some sunshine today. Be kind ❤️
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2 years
Loving this white foxglove in amongst my lavender! With verbena boreanis just starting to flower ❤️❤️❤️🐝
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
All the cabbages have come at once! Best to leave in ground? They won’t go over this time of year will they??? #GardeningTwitter #Homegrown #growyourown
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@littlegreentip1
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7 months
Finally the debate can end. Cream, jam, then cream 🙌 #jamfirst #creamfirst 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
That’s the fruit picked ready for breakfast… most of the raspberries did not make it into the house 😂 #homegrown #growyourown #gardeningtwitter #plasticfree #sustainable
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18 days
I’m so chuffed with my ‘new’ trellis and flower bed. Decided hubby is definitely a keeper 🤣🤣🤣 He can do amazing things with scrap wood! #gardening #GardeningTwitter #smallholding #homegrown #growyourown #nodig
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
Finally finished the birthday cake. I give you Sloth in jungle by a waterfall. Plain sponge next year 😂 #homemade #amImad ? #whydoIdothis
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
14 years of marriage deserved a special meal… fillet steak from farm down the road. Mushrooms. Homegrown tomato basil salad. Roasted homegrown new potatoes. Crunchy onion rings. Nom.
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11 months
Chick update! 4 not happy that I woke them 😂 8 dove for the food and water immediately. #smallholding #homegrown #sustainable
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3 months
Some beautiful beans going in to soak this morning along with last of 2021 borlotti and czar beans. Bean burritos for dinner later. It’s definitely achievable to be self sufficient in dried beans in UK. #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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9 months
Homegrown dinner 🙌 except the halloumi
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3 years
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@littlegreentip1
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10 months
Sweet peas and mint! First time I’ve ever picked sweet peas for the house. Gorgeous colours really going to cheer me up this morning as I work ❤️ #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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@littlegreentip1
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2 months
Having a port to celebrate passing my final assessment today - I am now a qualified compost inspector! Been saving this special little bottle for years. Cheers!
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1 year
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2 years
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
I dropped a whole tray of tomato seedlings trying to sort greenhouse out 😭🤦‍♀️ Emergency potting on was required. Guess what they were called??? Yellow drop 😂 #gardening #GardeningTwitter #growyourown #homegrown
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@littlegreentip1
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7 months
So much joy to be had with a tiny sunflower patch ❤️
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
Loving this in my weedy patch ❤️❤️❤️ Green mullien apparently…
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6 months
I was so proud of these leeks yesterday! I didn’t have any last winter and we really missed them. The leaf mould mulch definitely helped them thrive! #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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@littlegreentip1
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8 months
So pleased my pink fir potatoes are a success. All my earlies were devastated by slugs and millipedes. Interesting there’s a lot less slug damage on these. #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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2 years
Plants I have killed recently! Basil looked super healthy after germination then died. Trod on some tomatoes this morning. And a green bean plant died dramatically overnight 😂
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1 year
Morning! This is still relevant now! #homegrown #growyourown #smallholding
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4 months
Simple rice pudding to use up cream, jersey milk, brandy butter and buttered rum mix! #zerowaste #homemade
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2 years
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2 months
Peasant food this evening… carrot, leek and potato soup with cheese scones. Simples.
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3 months
Birthday cinnamon rolls for my 10 year old!
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@littlegreentip1
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9 days
I definitely haven’t finished work early and been to the garden centre to buy climbing plants for my new trellis 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️ #gardening #GardeningTwitter #smallholding #homegrown #growyourown
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27 days
The kids made my birthday cake - plum and marzipan. Used dehydrated plums and they worked so well. Nice #reuse of the kids old birthday candles . #homemade #homegrown
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2 years
Just picked up this ‘small’ pork box from a local farm!!!! £40 for two huge joints, a loin joint, 8 massive pork chops and 12 sausages. Absolute bargain and it’s local free range produce ❤️❤️❤️ I’ll ask if I can have it #plasticfree next time
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2 years
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2 months
Eldest can’t tell us what his creation is based on… fox, pig or bear???
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11 months
First courgettes of the season. Couldn’t resist 🤭🤭😝🤭 #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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1 year
This is the big dude who I keep disturbing in greenhouse. Youngest and I think he is a common toad! She built him a little damp dark hideaway so he isn’t disturbed so often!
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1 year
Hubby thought we’d lost some panes of glass on the greenhouse cos I’ve started cleaning it! 😂😂😂
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@littlegreentip1
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9 months
My dad has still got it 🙌 He’s 80 tomorrow ❤️❤️❤️ #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
I’ve actually got rows of parsnips growing!!! 💪💪💪 So excited 😆 first time in 13 years #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown
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1 year
I think my parsnips are starting to sprout!!! YAY! #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown
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1 year
My in laws insisted we take turkey carcass home yesterday for stock. They didn’t think there was any meat left!!! At least three meals worth for the 4 of us 🙌 Hope you’re making the most of your #leftovers #zerowaste
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2 years
So excited the log shed is finished! And the eldest has started filling it up already 🙌❤️
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@littlegreentip1
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2 years
Can’t afford to take hubby out so I brought the restaurant to him this evening… local steak, beer battered onion rings, triple cooked chips, roasted mushrooms, peppercorn sauce and vine tomatoes. He does so much for us ❤️ #homemade #local
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2 years
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
Sometimes convenience is required… freezer tea today. Using up fish fingers as no one really likes them. Chips and peas. With sweetcorn fritters to use ip 3/4 tin sweetcorn. I don’t have energy to cook beautiful homemade food every evening 😂 #leftovers #zerowaste
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6 months
I grew some ginger!!! Not the biggest yield but I’m so excited to try it in a drink tomorrow. Definitely doing in bigger pots next year. #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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6 months
Homemade pasta is flipping delicious. It is also time consuming 🤣 But has thoroughly lovely time with youngest, and eldest even joined in too ❤️❤️❤️
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2 months
Burnt my pan 😭😭😭 Hoping my usual trick of boiling burnt but with vinegar for 10 mins will help it lift off …. Wish me luck!!!
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25 days
The local farmers sheep are sheltering in this strip of land next to our paddock. Escaping the gale force winds. And nibbling on the fresh shoots on our hedge…
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@littlegreentip1
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3 months
Made the cinnamon rolls into vaguely artfully imitation of a cake. Youngest loved it. Phew. Another birthday successfully celebrated 🙌
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@littlegreentip1
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1 year
Guess the flavour of the pie? My pie art doesn’t appear to be improving 🤦‍♀️
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9 months
Don’t save your seeds towards the end of the season. Save them from the earlier fruit or veg. This means you’re selecting for early ripening rather than later ripening traits. #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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4 months
Meat boxes from our local farm are amazing quality, sustainably reared and reasonably priced. I just have to be organised and save cash every month. Cheaper than local butchers. This will last us months and months!!! #shoplocal #sustainable #lowfoodmiles
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26 days
I think we may have a bumper crop of blueberries this year if the frost doesn’t damage the flowers! #gardening #GardeningTwitter #smallholding #homegrown #growyourown
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5 months
I’m trying to utilise the woodburner when it’s on to cook bits and bobs rather than using electric oven/hob. Tonight I’m trying to roast some aubergines for baba ganoush!!! It might work it might not 🤣
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10 months
This freaked me out! Teeth on a courgette 😳like something off a horror film! #gardening #gardeningtwitter #growyourown #homegrown #smallholding
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11 months
Morning! Absolutely pouring with rain!! Finally! Have a good day all you lovely Tweeple ❤️
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1 year
I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture. A picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures. Here's mine.
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8 days
How are you feeling this morning??? GIFS only please!
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2 years
I couldn’t resist these guys at ALDI this morning! Tiny but super healthy looking! Feeling tad guilty for supporting gardening version of cheap fashion but I don’t succumb often 😂
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2 months
Look at those dumplings! Simple joys in life 🙌
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1 year
All planted. 2 vibernum, 2 honeysuckle, 4 clematis, 5 lavender, 1 rosemary, 2 creeping thyme, 1 lemon thyme, 6 lupins, 1 passiflora, 1 jasmine, 5 golden sedum. Hopefully a hive of activity for wildlife when it’s established! #gardening #GardeningTwitter #homegrown #growyourown
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1 year
Taking these to scouts to get the new wildlife are planted up. Thanks so much to everyone who helped me with ideas for what to plant ❤️ #gardening #GardeningTwitter #homegrown #growyourown
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3 years
11 rescue chickens exploring grass and the outdoors for the first time ❤️
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4 months
Starting year as I mean to go on… Home reared chicken roasted with our own cider. Homegrown cauliflower & leek cheese. Pigs in blankets from local butcher. Bread sauce. #Homegrown parsnips. Roasties with greengrocers potatoes. Spiced blackberry jelly. #zerowaste #sustainable
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