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Friday Finds – 10/10/14
It’s the weekend! Hooray! What’s everyone got planned? The garden’s starting to look a little autumnal (aka, messy) so I need to do some cutting back whilst I have the gumption to actually get outside and work. In the meantime, if you’d prefer to do some online and horticultural retail therapy, here’s a few things I found this week.
Cheap Chicken Coops
If you’re like me, you tap ‘Chicken Coop‘ into Google and wham, you’re faced with losing a few hundred pounds. With a move on the horizon, I need to get my hands on a new coop and reclaim the aviary for my finches. Side note – don’t ever try and put hens, even bantams, on the floor of an aviary; they’ll cause chaos). Luckily, you don’t have spend out on the big brands and their similarly inflated prices because there are some pretty decent offerings elsewhere. Chicken Coops and Houses, for example, still have a summer sale on and the ensemble to the left is only £99 (with an additional £14.99 P&P). That’s for five to six birds too, so you might even want to try the coop for three to four birds which is £10 less.
Create Your Own Hedgerow
A few weeks ago I wrote about foraging in the hedges for rosehips and haws to make my own jelly. Now, Trees by Post have got a great offer on Crataegus monogyna (Hawthorn). A single plant costs just £7.95, though it’s worth noting these are only between 30cm and 50cm tall; so they’re complete babies. The more you buy, the more you save too, which is certainly a bonus if you want to make a hedgerow instead of having a single tree. You’re not about to set the world on fire with next year’s homemade hedgerow jelly as you’ll have to wait a few years, but why not get a head start?!
Plant a Wildflower Meadow
Wildflower Meadows have become a hot topic over the past few years for many reasons; the 2012 Olympics landscaping, the need to feed bees and as a way to create a beautiful yet easy outdoor oasis. At Plant Me Now they’ve just launched their array of wildflower meadow seed collections and, best of all, P&P is totally FREE. The picture (left) is a perennial mix, containing plants such as poppies, achilleas and marigolds. There are also seed mixes to attract butterflies and bees and, get this, REPEL aphids; I want that one, NOW! There are a variety of prices to suit most needs and if you decide on a perennial mix, you’ll have a meadow that will flower year after year with very little work involved.
Colourful Beans
Dobies of Devon have just launched a new Climbing French Bean set. The mix costs £3.19 for approximately 45 seeds and will provide a wonderful show of purple, green and yellow bean pods when ripe. One of the things I love about beans is that you don’t need a vege garden to grow them in; just a fence and some soil will do. This collection is said to be stringless whilst exuding taste and, what with being pretty as well, pretty much tick every box.
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