Thursday Night and Monday Morning
One garden and one allotment in King's Lynn, written up twice a week.
Two emails a week from a garden and an allotment in King's Lynn.
Thursday night, a short one — the few jobs actually worth doing before Monday, based on what the weather's about to do.
Monday morning, the longer piece: what happened out there, what I got wrong, and what the garden's been teaching me while I wasn't paying attention.
Both free, and you can leave whenever you like.
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Thursday Night and Monday Morning
Embrace Gardening
Two emails a week from a garden and an allotment in King's Lynn.
Thursday night, a short one — the few jobs actually worth doing before Monday, based on what the weather's about to do.
Monday morning, the longer piece: what happened out there, what I got wrong, and what the garden's been teaching me while I wasn't paying attention.
Both free, and you can leave whenever you like.
5 / 10 mins
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"The garden doesn't ask you to be perfect. It just asks you to show up."
I'm Gary Stewart. I garden on heavy clay in King's Lynn — a garden at home and a plot on the allotment — soil that sets like concrete in August and cracks wide enough to lose a trowel down.
I'm not a horticulturist. I'm a keen amateur who has killed a lot of plants and learned something from most of them. What started as an attempt to keep a few tomatoes alive turned into a genuine love affair with the soil and the seasons, and most mornings now start with a cup of tea and a slow walk round to see what came up overnight.
Twice a week I write up what's actually happening across both plots — the practical stuff on a Thursday, the longer thinking on a Monday. Whether you've got an allotment of your own or one pot on a windowsill, there'll be something here for you.
A few things I love
Early morning seed sowing
Reading in the garden on a sunny summers day
Mud on my boots
Coffee in the garden on a fresh morning
Hearing the kids laugh in the garden
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (for my sins)
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