Chillis and tomatoes
A few weeks ago I visited the nursery of Sea Spring Seeds in Dorset. Before I launch into my visit, a bit of background for those readers who are not familiar with Sea Spring Seeds. The small nursery is located
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A few weeks ago I visited the nursery of Sea Spring Seeds in Dorset. Before I launch into my visit, a bit of background for those readers who are not familiar with Sea Spring Seeds. The small nursery is located
Continue readingI visited the show on Thursday and was incredibly lucky with the weather, it being the only dry day of the week. The sun shone and the festival looked lovely. Compared with recent years, I felt it was very colourful, with
Continue readingIts been such a wet autumn and early winter with hardly any frost. As gardeners, I expect we are all hoping for some dry weather that will give our soils a chance to dry out. With so much water falling
Continue readingWeatherwise, 2023 has been a weird year. Over winter we had mild, wet spells and then extreme cold, a wet March and April and then the weather flipped to hot and dry. No wonder people are concerned about insect numbers,
Continue readingTulips, chill and climate change Tulip bulbs are back in the garden centres, heralding the time of year when we start trawling through the bulb catalogues and planning our colour combinations for spring. Of course, no bulb display is complete
Continue readingHere are a few top tips to help get you through the heatwave when you can’t use your hose pipe Prioritise the areas of the garden that need water – pots, newly planted trees, shrubs and other plants, the veg
Continue readingI’ve just planted out a row of 5 new perennial kale plants that I propagated last winter. These are Taunton Deane kale (or cottagers kale) which can grow up to 2m or more so will create a barrier between my
Continue readingAs a new gardener many years ago, all the books I read described growing vegetables in a rotation with neat, weed-free rows. But over the years, I have moved to a polyculture approach in which I grow a number of
Continue readingMy veg plot has Nasturtiums everywhere – it’s not just that they look good, attract insects and are tasty in salads ( it’s a really punchy, peppery taste) but they are brilliant trap plants. You can see from the photo
Continue readingThese Ailsa Craig onions were grown from seeds, not sets. Sown in modules in Feb / March and transplanted in April and May. They are later than set grown, but looking good. Not only is it much cheaper to raise
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