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Digging out wildgrass

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 - Cat's paramour - No dogs - Digging out wild strip at top of veggie patch

Walk to Венковец

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 - Views of village - Венковец - Violet Oil Beetle - Wild growing succulent (Spanish Stonecrop?) - Peak snowdrops - Cat's return

Planting & Repotting: Garlic, Rhododendron & Aloe Vera

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- Potting: new Rhododendron Simsii/Azalea - Re-potting Aloe Vera - Planting Garlic: 9 rows, 9 bulbs per row - Extending border at top of veggie patch - Primroses coming out - Sawing off low branches of plum tree on wildside - Restacking woodpile - Fickle cat

Veggie Patch maintenance

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 - Spreading compost over onions - Assembling border around planting area - Cutting back wildgrass - Collecting pinecones

Planting Spring Onions

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 - First flowers on primroses - Weeding & digging over planting area - Planting: spring onion. 6 rows, 24 sets per row. - Cutting sprigs from Scots Pine & Norway Spruce

Setting walkway to compost bin

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 - Squirrel murderer - Snowdrops out - Laying rest of walkway - Watering & turning compost bin - Emptied hydrangea & anemone pots - Starting to weed & turn over wild strip at top of veggie patch - No dogs

Starting walkway to compost bin

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 - Dog ownership - Chipping paving slabs - Spacing stones - Setting one slab - Clearing crumbled concrete - Cutting down branches for kindling