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2024 Vegetable Gardening Trials
It may be early in the year but I’m starting to think about what to grow this season. I tried . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #455
One of my newer winter stars is centrestage for this week’s cheerful flower.
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Weather Hits Seed Potatoes
It seems last year’s dismal summer is still having an effect on amateur gardeners. The high rainfall led to several . . .
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Review: Plants & Fungi
As gardeners, most of us have a general understanding of plants but, reading Plants & Fungi, it’s clear how much . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #454
One of the garden’s underrated stars for the first cheerful flower of 2025. For much of the year, this is . . .
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Looking Back – The Garden in 2024
The thing that strikes me most as I think back over the garden in 2024 is how quickly the year . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #453
There really was only once choice for this week’s cheerful flower.
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Companion Planting For Veg Growers
Some advanced companion planting ideas – a sponsored guest post by D. T. Brown Seeds. For seasoned gardeners, companion planting . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #452
An RHS Chelsea memory for this week’s cheerful flower.
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Review: Unforgettable Gardens
Amid a plethora of books that take us around the gardens of Britain, Unforgettable Gardens is a little different. True, . . .
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