Things are moving slowly in the garden. Just one tulip and one weeny daffodil fully out at the moment. Patience! The good news is…
What the musician and the poet did next
Category: Growing veg
We recently woke up to find one of the rockery walls had collapsed, smashing a pot and smothering foxgloves, not to mention quite a few…
Things have gone a bit quiet here but only because of so many other things taking precedence! So a quick catch-up… The garden continued to…
We’ve only just come out of a long period of drought which seemed to last the whole of June and July. As a result, many…
Once again I’ve been too busy in the garden to actually blog about it! I started sowing seeds in trays and containers in the summer…
It’s been a while – but as British Summer Time begins, it seems like a good time to get things up to speed on this…
Much as I love autumn it’s a bit sad to see things dying down. The hibiscus has all but shed its leaves, the lawn is…
Turn away now if you’re squeamish about garden pests… our broccoli-growing adventure continues with the summer-long battle against the cabbage white butterfly. Friends warned us…
Well we learned a lot this year – not to plant vegetables too close together (in other words, adhere to the instructions on the seed…
I am such a townie, and have never grown fruit or vegetables, unless you count the potato plants I inherited in the back garden of…