Our New Life in the Country: Planting on my Mind

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Planting on my Mind

I've obviously got planting things and growing my own food on my mind. I slipped this magazine in my supermarket shopping trolley yesterday without even giving it more than a cursory thought.

I had spotted the free seeds and gift on the front cover, and although the little plastic things look nothing, I have a little plastic dibber just like this that is hiding somewhere in amongst all my planting stuff over and over and it's the most used bit of kit ever for making holes and lifting seedlings carefully to re-pot ... and you just can't say no to more Kale and Chard seeds can you.

Then before I knew it as soon as I got home I was signing up for a full years subscription. Well it would have been foolish not to ..... with thirty six pounds worth of seeds free for a £36 years subscription, I'm either getting the magazine totally free of charge or a heck of a lot of free food for next year. Did I mention that I have more than enough seeds for this year without any shopping.

But sometimes you just HAVE to treat yourself don't you ;-)

Sue xx

12 comments:

Poppypatchwork19 March 2015 at 17:48
It would be rude not too.
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Happeninguponhappiness19 March 2015 at 17:57
Damn! I wish you'd treated yourself before I bought all my seeds! Enjoy your treat :)
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Hazel19 March 2015 at 17:58
Bet you can't wait to get started
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The Quirky Bird Gardener19 March 2015 at 18:13
and why not, growing things from seed is so exciting, I never get bored of it, be it food or flowers :)
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Sandies' Patch19 March 2015 at 18:59
Wish I had enough dosh to get the subscription too, it's my favourite of the gardening magazines!
I've got a few of these free sets too and got another one the other day as part of a set of a mini sieve, dibber scooper set and a little seed sower thingy from Poundland. That store has a lot of good gear for the gardener!
The scooper end I use to pick up tiny seed beads when doing embroidery or jewellery making.
Enjoy your magazine subscription Sue, I know you will get every pennys' worth from it!
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Texan19 March 2015 at 19:33
36 pounds of seeds? That is a a lot of seeds! I am in seed planting mode daily at this point. Started some of my seedlings a few weeks back and am planting more now. Such a fun time of year!
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Jane and Chris19 March 2015 at 19:38
You lucky duck!!
Jane x
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Living Alone in Your 60's19 March 2015 at 22:26
I love magazines but they can be an expensive habit. This one at least is value for money. Is it monthly?
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Meanqueen19 March 2015 at 22:37
Looks like a good buy.
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Gill - That British Woman19 March 2015 at 22:44
I am a magazine junkie, and would have signed up as well, it's a win, win situation.
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e20 March 2015 at 01:50
May all of your seeds sprout wonderfully and enjoy the magazine!
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Kirsty21 March 2015 at 22:03
ooh I'll keep an eye out for this!
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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