It’s been a quiet few weeks at The Secret Acre having been unexpectedly struck down by pestilence and plague. I spent the hottest day of the year, shivering under a duvet, unable to get warm. Annoying when there is so much to do. Hopefully we can start getting back to the harvest soon.
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And we hope you like jammin’ too… because another thing that seems to have enjoyed our unseasonably wet and cold spring/summer period is the soft fruit. Or at least some of it!
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Readers here in the UK will know that, after the wettest winter/spring on record and stubbornly cold temperatures, finally as we reach mid-summer, we might finally be getting some summer weather.
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Wishing all our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Like many people, we are no longer sending Christmas Cards, in favour of donating the money to charity instead. You have to follow our posts here for all our news through the year.
So we thought we’d end 2023 then, with these pictures from our ‘Museum’ anniversary year!
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It’s been a difficult year for plants and wildlife suffering the stuck weather systems of climate change. A worry for the extremes to come.
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It has been the usual busy summer period here at The Secret Acre, since enjoying the first produce of spring, punctuated by the sadness of having to say goodbye to a beloved elderly member of the family.
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Very sad to post that our beloved Noodle left us this weekend after a short illness.
Noodle came to The Secret Acre two and half years ago through unexpected serendipity, just a few weeks after the heartbreak of losing our long-term family companion, Ruby.
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Here we are again, about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice, at least in the northern hemisphere, with the garden once again bursting back into full life.
We may have to visit a Henge today to celebrate!
At least the Asparagus has been enjoying our wet spring weather, even if the seedlings have been suffering from the unseasonal cold.
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With spring approaching, it was time to complete the external parts of our barn rebuild, by creating an open lean to work area where the old woodshed used to be.
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The start of February marks the traditional Druid festival of Imbolc, celebrating the beginning of spring, being about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
Of course these days, Imbolc is some six weeks ahead of what we now tend to think of as the official start of spring in March, but nonetheless, this is the time when the first earliest signs of the garden waking up start to appear.
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