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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Category: Flowers, veg and more
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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It’s Topsy-turvy in the Garden
There’s no doubt it’s been a strange autumn in my garden. In fact, I seem to have all the seasons . . .
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Charles Dowding and no dig growing
As no dig advocate Charles Dowding releases a new book, I’ve been chatting to him about his way of gardening. . . .
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Sweet peas – the 2020 season
Sweet peas were one of this year’s success stories, flowering right up until mid-August and providing so many blooms I . . .
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Tomatoes – the 2020 Gardening Trials
I spent the weekend clearing the last of the tomatoes from the greenhouse, something that always signals the end of . . .
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Malvern to Hold Plant Fair
After a season of cancelled flower shows, the Malvern Plant and Garden Fair is a welcome announcement. A plant fair . . .
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Colour in the garden
Life in lockdown has some advantages and one of those has been the time to really look at the colour . . .
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Sowing Seeds in Lockdown
Sowing seeds in spring is nothing new for me but being in lockdown has presented a new set of challenges. . . .
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