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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Tomatoes – the 2019 highs and lows
I’ve been sowing tomatoes and looking back at the results of the 2019 gardening trials. I grow a lot of . . .
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Starting the season with sweet peas
It’s too early to really start thinking about sowing seeds but one thing I will be doing this month is . . .
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The 2019 Flower Gardening Trials
For many years, I didn’t really grow annual flowers – beyond sweet peas – but starting a cutting border changed . . .
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Gardening Trials 2019 – the veg
I’ve been clearing the vegetable beds, adding compost and starting to make plans for next season. This year’s gardening trials . . .
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Tomatoes – planning the 2019 season
I’ve been sorting out my tomatoes ready for sowing and looking back at the 2018 season. Tomatoes are a bit . . .
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Vegetable trials – the results
High temperatures and little rain made it a challenging season in the veg plot. Some things seemed to ignore the . . .
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Gardening trials – the flowers
Dainty erigeron, towering sunflowers – this year’s flower Gardening Trials have certainly been varied. There have been some standout stars . . .
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Product review: Earth Cycle Composts
This year, I’m trying out some Earth Cycle composts, made from recycled green waste and cow manure When I stopped . . .
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