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This is a strange Easter. Quite apart from the other changes to our usual routine we cannot get to garden centres. Easter weekend is the start of the garden year for many gardeners, though the more dedicated will know that the gardening year starts a lot earlier. It is all about the planning. I started…
In these difficult times we are not able to get out and indulge in some of our favourite pastimes – buying plants and enjoying a coffee at our favourite garden centre, but just because we can’t leave home we can still work in the garden. Spring is often a tricky time in the garden –…
One of the many characters I remember from the old days at Knights was Bert. I don’t know if I ever knew his surname and I certainly can’t remember it now – perhaps one of you know. I was endlessly fascinated by his tales of life ‘in service’ when he worked in a private estate….
One of the first jobs I did when I started at Knights was rotovating. There was an old Howard Gem rotavator, a big orange beast with rotating blades at the front and two big wheels at the back. It seemed huge to me at the time but not impossible to manoeuvre, after all it had…
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