C J Archer

Cotswold View Gardening. Self employed gardener.

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Poor potato harvest from the allotment so far. Hopefully the main crop will fare better.

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Tomato - Celano is proving to be a good cropper.

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Microgreen Spinach Komatsuna.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘The Farmer’ (1963)

Setting the seed
Artist: John Berry

[Travellers' Times @TravellersTimes]

A new film, funded by @LankellyChase, made by @bowers_jake for Aye Right’s This Land Project has just been released to create greater awareness and understanding of nomadic communities cultural and traditional practices.

Click here to watch: https://t.co/YGJ4KrJF5y

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The perfect job for a cold winter morning.

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Spent the best part of the day working on my hands and knees. Safe to say my old knees ache a good ‘un #GardenersLife

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

That back-to-work feeling
#EricWinter

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Now that the Premier League is over, it's time for real sports to get some airtime. Such as

hedgelaying tournaments

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As the sun rises I’m up a ladder pruning clematis. Fingers numb with cold.

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Friends, today is #PloughMonday: the first Monday after Twelfth Night, when traditionally farmers resumed their work after Christmas and the English agricultural year began!

It was celebrated in many different ways, including blessing, dancing with, and singing about ploughs.

[Country diary @GdnCountryDiary]

Gypsies bring mistletoe and berried holly into town: Country diary, 19 December 1946 https://t.co/ChxbMrP18l

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Walking the fields. 23/5/20.

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It’s been dry for a good couple of weeks. The day we hire a flail to mow the meadow, down comes the rain.

[HE Archive @HE_Archive]

The allotment: a source of food and a place of wellbeing.
#EdibleEngland
#HODs

Find out more about allotment history with our blog https://t.co/cM9rQwZM3H
and podcast
https://t.co/mTT8Xft8rU

https://t.co/IAAL8UbPx4

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#Zinnias at the allotment.

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Glorious roses. Clients garden.

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The beauty of native wildflowers – in pictures https://t.co/IrfqGBe7H7

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Self sown foxgloves. Clients garden.

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Twas a glorious day.