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Oh Sally that's so lovely to hear! I'm beginning to think I might need to create some kind of index...and we're only about half a dozen in! But where oh where and how?!! I'll talk more about staking tomatoes when the next season rolls around...I reckon most peeps have stopped growing by now so I'll get in early with tips next season. Yes I have had the fruit tree clippings strike! Once I had a whole row of tiny apricot stakes in flower!! Do visit Great Dixter...not only is the garden glorious, but so many interesting principles are put to the test under the guiding hand of Fergus Garrett. It's very much worth planning for a good day out. And your rhubarb and apple pie sounds positively scrumptious....

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I'm glad you enjoyed reading Heather...how we value those moments of stillness. I hope your Easter was a happy one too. xx

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Whoops!! Hi Jill and sorry for the tardy response...that darling dahlia is a Ball variety called First Prize (personally I call it raspberry ripple!). It came from our friends at Club Creek Bulb Farm in Victoria...you know...the ones who always have those huge buckets of cut flowers on display at The Collectors' Plant Fair coming up in a couple of weeks time. It's sure worth trying the copper tape for the sweet pea seeds...funny...they seem so much more hardy than edible peas - whilst I don't want to curse the situation...I've never had anything eat the sweet peas!

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Happy Easter Sunday 🐣 staking is so important, not only for broad beams but tomatoes and dahlias, which by the way, the one you shared is gorgeous. With your dip fruit tree clippings used for barriers for birds, have you ever had one strike? I also have a copy of the Great Dixter Cookbook, and it is my aim one day when visiting family in the UK to add the Great Dixter garden to my list. We have a generous neighbour who passed on some rhubarb recently which became a rhubarb and apple pie, gently cooked so both fruits pretty much kept their shape. I love reading your posts, but end up reading them more than once as I know I will have missed something. Until next time…

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A wonderful read with a cuppa in the stillness of time Mickey...Thank you and Happy Easter Xx

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Oh I covet that darling dahlia. Does it have a name? Supplier?

And Mickey will Diggers copper tape work to keep sweet pea seeds safe?

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