HeyJaredClaire Stares
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Country diary: Notice anything wrong with this ripe, succulent plum? | Claire Stares (opens the original)
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Langstone, Hampshire: My garden is full of Victoria plums, but they’re not supposed to be crunchy inside This summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature ripening and pre-harvest drop. While my dessert and cooking apples have produced just a handful of stunted, crab-apple-sized fruit, and my quince is bare, the Victoria plum growing next to the greenhouse is the exception. Its branches are so heavily laden th
Country diary: Notice anything wrong with this ripe, succulent plum? - AOL (opens the original)
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This summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature ripening and pre-harvest drop. While my dessert and cooking apples have produced just a handful of stunted, crab-apple-sized fruit, and my quince is bare, the Victoria plum growing next to the greenhouse is the exception. Its branches are so heavily laden that several have snapped under the weight. For the past week, I’ve been plucking and eating the plums stra
Country diary: Itâs not easy, finding grass seeds in the sea â but this search matters | Claire Stares (opens the original)
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Calshot, Hampshire: Underwater meadows are vanishingly rare habitats, so I join a group who are gathering eelgrass seed to help restore them Itâs 6.30am and Iâm wading knee-deep in the Solent, searching for common eelgrass (Zostera marina) seed. I meander through the shallows, scanning the underwater meadow for something no bigger than my little finger. Iâve been shown photos of the seed-bearing spathes, but at first the sheer expanse of leaves is overwhelming. I try combing my fingers thr
Country diary: It’s not easy, finding grass seeds in the sea – but this search matters - AOL (opens the original)
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It’s 6.30am and I’m wading knee-deep in the Solent, searching for common eelgrass (Zostera marina) seed. I meander through the shallows, scanning the underwater meadow for something no bigger than my little finger. I’ve been shown photos of the seed-bearing spathes, but at first the sheer expanse of leaves is overwhelming. I try combing my fingers through them, feeling for the fleshy flowering spikes, but come up empty-handed. A seasoned volunteer advises me to look for something resembling the
Country diary: I thought I was poking a hedgehogâs nest. I was wrong | Claire Stares (opens the original)
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Langstone, Hampshire: Tree bumblebees are generally placid, but theyâre not keen on someone prodding their home with the end of a bamboo cane Last summer, one by one, all our visiting hedgehogs fell victim to the road. For the first time in years, the hedgehog house beneath a purple-leaved elder in a secluded corner of the garden sat empty over winter. Then a few weeks ago I found fresh faeces on the patio, glistening with fragments of undigested insect exoskeleton â a sure sign that a pric
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