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The garden summary 2026

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Vegetable Garden 2026

I am officially naming 2026 as the year of the Coriander Forest.

In the past, I have tried, with minimal success, to grow coriander. I’ve gotten a couple of measly plants, which generally grew and went to seed before I could even use them. Well, not this year. Because this year, we got a coriander forest.

When the first tiny plants sprang up, I was confused. It looked like coriander… but how? So when it got a little bigger I had a taste and realised… it was coriander. So… I nurtured them. Because I love coriander, so I want as much as humanly possible.

And that’s what I got… a whole damn forest.

To the detriment of the other plants, in the end.

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Weeding – enough already!

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Welcome to my mess

When I was growing up we always had a vege garden. My dad was head gardener and he’d spend a lot of his free time toiling outside to produce masses of pumpkins and beans and glossy red tomatoes. I loved helping him, and by helping him I mean, only doing fun things: planting seeds in an already prepared garden bed, picking snow peas and eating more than went in my basket, watching new shoots break through wet earth… that kind of thing.

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