Tag Archives: gardening
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Flower Friday ~ Last peach blossoms
4Friday 06 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Grass/weed cutting time
12Monday 25 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Very soon I’ll be heaving the gas powered grass cutter onto my back for two solid days of tackling the …
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Flower Friday ~ Double Pink
5Friday 22 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Last of the winter veg
2Sunday 17 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Temps are a climbing… up to the early 30s again now (that’s touching 90F), so time to rip up the …
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Flower Friday ~ This morning’s roses
15Friday 15 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken an hour ago, here are some of the rose beds. With spring providing cool nights, occasional rain and sunny …
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Macro Monday: Bees in the orchard
4Monday 11 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Time for another Macro Monday…. and for this week we have a shot taken by a friend of ours who …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future (I)
13Friday 08 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My first Weekly Photo Challenge idea of the ‘future’ shows a broad bean plant having just is poked through after …
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Flower Friday ~ Blossom; never enough
4Friday 01 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Mountain colours
12Friday 25 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here in the West Taurus mountains, we have plenty to roam, with pine forested peaks as far as the eye can …
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Flower Friday ~ Plum tree blossom
5Friday 18 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here are some not-so-close-up images of the plum trees which are in full blossom right now. At night it actually …
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Macro Monday: Plum blossom in the rain
3Monday 14 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Broccoli plants
9Saturday 12 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
A little while ago we saw these beautiful flowers, and Joanne from My Life Lived Full mentioned wanting to see …
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Flower Friday ~ More Apricot Blossom
4Friday 11 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Broccoli Flowers
6Monday 29 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Cabbages…. my five year wait is over
16Sunday 28 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Never had a lot of luck or the right weather conditions for cabbages, but finally, I have some – yay! …
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Flower Friday ~ First Apricot
11Friday 26 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken just a few minutes ago… This is the very first of the beautiful flowers that blossom on the apricot …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (IV)
10Thursday 25 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows how the farm is inbetwixt (love that word) seasons, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (III)
7Tuesday 23 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the start of the seasonal burn-up after winter. All 250 trees …
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Something simple from the freezer
16Sunday 21 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
With three freezers full of homegrown produce, it’s a pretty regular occurrence that I delve into their depths with not …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons (I)
17Saturday 20 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is typical for springtime here in southwest Türkiye. Everything is green, the …
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Flower Friday ~ Spring has arrived
9Friday 19 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
(courtesy of a good friend who visiting our farm)
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Flower Friday ~ Winter Grass
4Friday 15 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Flags & Flowers
Leave a commentFriday 08 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Lemons, just a few
14Thursday 07 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Following the disaster of last January, when our big freeze wiped out all the lemons, killing one decent sized fruit-producing …
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Wot No Cabbages?
5Wednesday 06 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
The sudden cold snap (aka, winter) dissipated after five-six days, and we are back to mild weather, with a mix …
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Kumquat success
8Tuesday 05 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Whilst many crops have not favoured the weird weather of 2015, the humble little kumquat tree seems to be as …
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Flower Friday ~ Summer colours
17Friday 01 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Bit later than normally posted, but here is my Friday floral offering. For many of us, we are now ‘mid-winter’; …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Now (III)
5Monday 28 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third Weekly Photo Challenge entry is from our veg area today; finally, some half-ok broccoli 🙂 Hope you …
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Macro Monday: Fig leaf bud
5Monday 28 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Autumn colours, in Winter
12Saturday 26 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s officially past mid-winter…. yeah right! Our trees are only just shedding their leaves, as our weird weather continues unabated …
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Flower Friday Pot
5Friday 18 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Oops! (IV)
2Monday 14 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My fourth Weekly Photo Challenge take on Oops! was from the day I was trying to get a decent pose …
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Macro Monday: Softness
4Monday 14 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. We have a fair amount of these grasses dotted around the ‘house garden’ on the farm. Each year I …
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Flower Friday ~ Bitola Balcony
3Friday 11 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How about this for a few flowers on your balcony? Taken in the middle of summer in the southern border …
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Flower Friday ~ Ok, it’s another White Hibiscus
5Friday 04 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Yellow Trumpets (Burgmasia)
5Friday 27 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Monster pink beauty!
13Friday 20 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As per usual for me, I have no idea what this is 🙂 It looks like a whopping big rose, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory (III)
5Tuesday 17 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My third Weekly Photo Challenge entry is all about is perseverance towards uncertain victory! Or just plain old digging a hole for a …
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Macro Monday: Cherry tomato
3Monday 16 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My entry for Macro Monday this week is a simğple shot of the top of a small little sweet cherry …
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Flower Friday ~ Roses are red…
2Friday 13 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Twins
Leave a commentFriday 06 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Another White Hibiscus
1Friday 30 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Last summer produce
6Sunday 25 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s been a weird old year…. we’ve seen lemon trees decimated and some killed off by very rare severe frosts …
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Flower Friday ~ Twin Reds
Leave a commentFriday 23 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Last Peppers
3Sunday 18 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Drying the last of the summer peppers before the rains start…
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Flower Friday ~ Blue (something)…
20Friday 16 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Not sure on this one. At first I thought it looked like a blue hydrangea, but like a tiny version. Any …
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Flower Friday ~ Purple strikes again
5Friday 09 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This one was taken in the UK a long time ago. Not sure what it is, but the flowers so …
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As fast as I put them in….
7Thursday 08 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Bluebell
2Friday 02 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Simple elegance The humble Bluebell is one of nature’s best examples. Often seen as a mass of blue like a …
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Back when the monster was small…
15Thursday 01 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This was a few years ago now When the kiddo was light enough to hold! Taken on the roof – …
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