Handy sized book A review of Soil Mates by Sara Alway published by Quirk books. This is not your average gardening book. It is not a large like most gardening books can be, so there is no need to clear your lap to read it. There are no glossy pages full of perfectly styled vegetable …
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Vegetable Garden Planner 2013
Chitting time I’ve been busy scribbling down the planting I have planned for my vegetable garden this year. That is if I can ever get into it with the never ending snow or rain that seems to be falling from the sky of late. Whats in? – this year for the first time I will …
Great Garden Moments
I may not be best pleased with all the rain we have had of late, coupled with a lack of sunshine, but there are always areas of the garden that adore these conditions. For the first time ever I have had an amazing crop of lettuce, mainly due to the fact that it is not …
Spring Garden Tour – Part 1
Copper Beech dominates the view There is no doubting that we have had plenty of rain for weeks now. The good news – the garden is pleased! Although the Daffodils have now faded, its seen an explosion of life for the shrubs, flowers and trees in the garden. So I thought it was about time …
Chitting Time
During the last few weeks I’ve been popping into the greenhouse to make a start on getting my seeds planted. As I’ve mentioned previously I’d decided which vegetables I’d be growing this year, and as we are at the end of January I thought it was time I shared an update. As you can see from …
Four Month Vegetable Seed Plan
Now that its January its about time I started to give some thought to the garden and what vegetables I plan to grow. I hunted out my seed tin from the garage and was amazed at just how many seed packets I had leftover from last year. Back in October I was lucky enough …
Cucumbers a mixed year
I wanted to share my gardening disaster with you. I always seem to have great success with growing cucumbers, well at least for the first month or two and then disaster strikes in the form of Red Spider Mite. I usually manage to get 4 or 5 cucumbers before the plants loose their fight, …