Sweet Peas 2021 – Pick of the Bunch
Sweet peas 2021 turned out to be a rather mixed season with some plants producing an abundance of flowers while . . .
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2021 Tomato Trials – the Results
The 2021 tomato trials have gone far better than I feared would be the case. The plants managed to escape . . .
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Saving the National Dahlia Collection
The National Dahlia Collection has a new home and a new custodian. I’ve been to find out more. Now I’m . . .
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Fairford Flower Collective Go To Chelsea
An impulsive suggestion has led to Fairford Flower Collective exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I met them to . . .
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Product review: Bokashi Organko 1 Composter
This is a sponsored post. Composting is something I’ve done for as long as I’ve had a garden. And that’s . . .
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Rose of the Year Debuts at Stockton Bury
So many of us have had to find new ways of doing things over the past year and it appears . . .
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Life and Death in the Garden
At first glance, everything looks good in the garden. Tulips are appearing daily, there are buds on shrubs, and the . . .
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Vegetable Gardening Trials 2020
The weather’s been too bad recently to do much beyond checking on plants in the greenhouse and potting shed, topping . . .
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A Look Back at the Garden in 2020
Never have I been so glad to see the back of a year but I guess I’m not alone in . . .
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The 2020 Cut Flowers Gardening Trials
I’ve been looking back at this year’s cut flowers gardening trials and deciding what to grow next year. There seems . . .
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