category: Girl Conquers Earth

Gardening for schools

Girl Conquers Earth – Episode V

  • Girl Conquers Earth – Episode V
  • by Tara

  • It turns out my son, Jude Bonaparte Sinclair, has inherited my grandad’s green fingers. He won best petunia in school award. Not best in class, not best in year, but best in SCHOOL. The competition was arranged by Byrkley Garden Centre. They distributed seeds to local schools, including Jude’s, All Saints’ CE Primary School in…

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Gardening

Girl Conquers Earth Episode IV

  • Girl Conquers Earth Episode IV
  • by Tara

  • I learned two very important lessons over the past fortnight: • It is very hard to keep things growing in ground that has not been looked after • It is very hard to stop things growing in ground that has So first to the allotment. The leeks, cabbages and ornamental spinach that Sharon gave me…

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Girl Conquers Earth. Episode III

  • Girl Conquers Earth. Episode III
  • by Tara

  • The rain arrived shortly after Severn Trent Water announced the drought but before we could get to the allotment to start digging in earnest. The week had been packed so we’d only been popping up to water the plants and chat with our more industrious neighbours. We figured (wrongly) that when my dad came to…

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Girl Conquers The Earth contd..

  • Girl Conquers The Earth contd..
  • by Tara

  • Girl Conquers The Earth – Episode II Did I really refer to my allotment as “a little careworn plot”? Little? What was I thinking? This week, in the rain and the wind, it seemed to get bigger by the second. We dug and we dug and we dug and we dug, but still we didn’t…

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