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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Tag: gardening trials
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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My Gardening View #14
My Gardening View this month is a mix of disaster and delight as the unsettled weather takes its toll on . . .
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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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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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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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