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Over the virtual garden fence Welcome to our newsletter "OVER THE VIRTUAL GARDEN FENCE".
It is an occasional newsletter that will give you:
Free seasonal advice on what you can do in your garden,
Free recipes that use seasonal produce -home grown or available free from the hedgerows,
Updates on our latest products, promotions and the odd free gift!
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September 2007Free Bulbs!
We hope you are enjoying the Indian Summer weather after such a dismal summer.
Free Bulbs!
Its' a busy time again now and to get you in the mood for the planting season we are pleased to offer Free tulip bulbs with every order of our stainless steel garden dibber while stocks last.
Stainless steel garden dibbers are great for bulb planting - strong, robust and more pleasant to handle than a traditional bulb planter. Gardener's World on 21st September suggested using dibbers as effective bulb planters and we agree! Put us to the test! Buy a stainless steel dibber and we will give you free Golden Apeldoorn tulip bulbs so you can see for yourself how easy they make this job!
Order soon - our last free offer was so popular we were out of stock in no time!
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Grow your own tea. Read your tea leavesMore Free Stuff!
Get your free tasseology glossary with all orders of our herbal tea selection or any of our pocket garden seed collections while stocks last.
Read on for some intriguing tasseomancy tips (come on, you didn't know what it meant any more than we did!). Call it tasseomancy or tasseology or tasseography, which makes it sound more scientific.
Make fresh tea and pour without using a strainer into a cup with a white interior.
Now drink the tea, being careful not to swallow any of the leaves.
Leave a little tea in the bottom of the cup, just enough to cover the leaves.
Swirl the tea around inside the cup. Different people have different rules for this, some hold the cup in the left hand and swirl it three times anticlockwise. Probably doesn't have much effect on the outcome though.
Turn the cup upside down on to the saucer.
The remaining liquid will drain into the saucer and as it does so the tealeaves will stick to the side.
Look into the leaves.
Concentrate on one simple question and look for patterns relevant to the question.
Surprisingly there are a number of patterns that turn up regularly and you will find these described in the glossary that will accompany each order of our herbal tea range or pocket garden seed collections.
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Pests love the wetThe wet weather and the mildness of our summer has given rise to a bumper crop of new diseases and pests in the garden, or is it only ours? Thank heaven for the Garden Detective CD, which helped to solve the mystery of a new pest on our neighbour's Oleander. A very specific and unpleasant little yellow bug now thankfully despatched. The Garden Detective is a great tool for identifying pests and also for the best way to eradicate them whether you choose to use chemicals or not.
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Timely tipsTowards the end of September start protecting your fruit trees from attack by fixing grease bands around the trunks to deter wingless female coddling moths from crawling up the trunks to lay their eggs in wait for next season's fruit.
Continue to sow turnips, spinach and winter lettuce. Many garden-in-a-bag varieties will be successful given sufficient light. Continue your love affair with Mediterranean and Asian cooking by growing Coriander, Basil and Italian parsley conveniently in your kitchen. |  |
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Tea LoafTea Time Treats
While you're reading your tea leaves and planning where to put your new golden tulips, have a slice of delicious:
Tea Loaf
500 g dried sultanas or mixed cake fruit
400 ml strained strong tea
200 g moist brown sugar (preferably muscavado)
1 egg
½ tsp mixed spice
Soak the fruit in the strained tea over-night.
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and then transfer to a greased lined cake tin and bake at175°C. for about 1 ½ hrs.
Remove from the tin and leave to cool. Store covered in an airtight tin for a day or two. The flavour improves with keeping although it's so delicious we predict you won't be able to keep it for long
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