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Spanish Garden

By James Mcallister

How to develop a Spanish garden and care for it all year
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It is time for the world fig netting championship – and Cruella steals the show

Spanish GardenJul 05, 2022

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06:55
I am away and Cruella has taken my seedlings hostage
Apr 26, 202305:23
Cruella is back, and so is the big rat!
Apr 09, 202307:29
The Yucca Lull and I get a nose piercing
Mar 27, 202303:07
Sago pups, Cruella flys off and I receive a chicken delegation
Mar 10, 202305:58
The Wild Wood, chicken pickets and things to do now
Feb 27, 202304:40
The big cutback part 4: The titanic struggle with the big ficus and I invoke help from Wigan!
Feb 03, 202303:34
The big cutback part 3: and Cruella becomes a “feeder”
Jan 28, 202307:43
The big cutback Part 2: My new garden kneeler and accusations of chicken discrimination
Jan 28, 202306:34
Hooray! It’s time for the big Winter cutback and Cruella holds a farewell party for the idiot son
Jan 12, 202308:12
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all Spanish Gardeners and chickens
Jan 12, 202302:12
Jobs you should be doing now; not including chicken entertaining!
Dec 05, 202207:24
Disease, pestilence and the start of the first great chicken war
Nov 06, 202207:35
I have a bulb plan, Cruella has become Frankenstein and the little white chicken is back from the dead
Oct 23, 202206:08
The little white chicken is dead but Tango the blind Labrador is keeping morale up
Oct 23, 202204:23
My garden has suffered the desolation of Mordor and Cruella has taught her chickens to hunt as a pack!
Oct 23, 202204:57
Tie up, deadhead and cane!
Oct 23, 202200:22
It is time for the Costa Blanca Cut and Cruella has started the chicken wars
Aug 23, 202204:47
Tie up, deadhead and cane!
Aug 08, 202203:57
Sawfly caterpillars, Brynhildr and the chicken Furies
Jul 23, 202202:58
Giant Marigolds, must do jobs and the Chicken Messiah
Jul 18, 202204:44
It is time for the world fig netting championship – and Cruella steals the show
Jul 05, 202206:55
I Choose joy over design and Cruella has a new business idea
Jun 20, 202205:46
Plant, Weed, Feed and Deadhead
Jun 08, 202205:32
Its Open Garden Day soon – but Cruella is trying to upstage me with fancy chickens
May 25, 202200:50
I have been victimised by an ungrateful Blackbird
May 16, 202204:16
Its time to deal with the Palm Weevil before it gets your trees
May 04, 202205:05
It’s time to make your bed
Apr 28, 202203:32
For everything there is a season…a time to plant and a time to harvest 
Apr 18, 202203:56
A happy and blessed Easter to all Spanish gardeners
Apr 16, 202200:12
Cruella’s weather curse continues but I seek revenge by turning the kitchen into a seed factory 
Apr 04, 202204:18
Cruella curses the weather and I thwart a bamboo escape
Mar 24, 202204:02
Cruella creates a marsh and I sing laments with the Agave Attenuata
Mar 17, 202206:15
The struggle with the big Ficus a modern day story of heroism
Feb 27, 202205:53
I’m back with gardening and teapots, what’s not to like.
Feb 20, 202205:54
I have become a hedge fund manager – without the fund
Jan 24, 202204:35
Cruella has designed clothing for blind dogs, whilst I have lost a gallon of blood and turned to alcohol
Jan 13, 202207:03
The idiot son has gone, Cruella has taken to his bed and I am in winter cutback heaven
Jan 06, 202205:09
The idiot son is coming home, the Peacock is back and I’m hiding from Cruella
Dec 17, 202105:25
Birds and small animals return in Cruella’s absence and we clear the Wild Wood
Nov 27, 202105:07
Cruella has flown to England but she still misses the cat
Nov 27, 202107:41
Cruella has sent me a plague of wooly aphids and a vulture!
Nov 27, 202105:01
Cruella and her friends scared my lawn
Oct 23, 202104:10
I’m taking cuttings and growing seedlings whilst Cruella is growing a puppy
Oct 11, 202105:17
Mulch ado about nothing and how Cruella did well
Oct 11, 202106:15
Cruella has destroyed our        English garden
Sep 17, 202104:23
Cruella is making bird and bee Porridge and destroying my garden
Sep 09, 202104:48
Cruella hears the death rattle of the Loofah
Aug 21, 202104:58
My breakfast has come back to life in the compost bin
Aug 08, 202104:10
Forget the Chelsea Chop, I have invented the Costa Blanca Cut
Jul 30, 202104:33
I have been gardening in the nude so Cruella has made me invisible, and the idiot son has heatstroke.
Jul 13, 202105:23