Lifting Spirits With Winter Growing
Now isn’t the obvious time to be sowing seeds but with so much gloom around I decided a bit of . . .
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Tag: seeds
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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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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Review: The Book of Seeds by Dr Paul Smith
Seeds never cease to amaze me. Mixed with just a water and soil, and sometimes warmth, the driest, most shrivelled . . .
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Planning for the 2018 cutting garden
The weather may still be wintery but I’m already starting to think about summer and plan the 2018 cutting garden. . . .
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Hits and misses of the 2017 garden trials
One of the delights of gardening is trying something new and I’ve been given a whole range of things for . . .
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Win some Dalefoot Compost
Please note, this contest has closed. Like many gardeners, I don’t like using peat and over the years I’ve tried . . .
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Short of growing space? Try a windowsill garden
Franchi Seeds have launched Windowsill Garden kits to bring growing indoors. I’ve been finding out more and there’s the chance . . .
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Christmas gardening jobs
December is a quiet time in the garden caught between the clear-up of autumn and the busy seed-sowing of spring. . . .
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The trials of gardening
As a gardening journalist, I’ve long been given plants, seeds and bits of kit to test in my own plot. . . .
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