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Category Archives: Growing
Preparing beds for Spring planting
The soil at our little allotment is very poor, but thanks to some lovely Capital Growth funding we bought some manure to fertilise it with! This lovely waste from the stables is full of rich nutrients that plants love. We … Continue reading
A spot of guerilla gardening
My attempt at guerilla gardening last year didn’t really flourish, particularly as the council garden man can’t tell a flower from a weed and ripped out my plants! But the bulbs soldiered on, and in their current stunted state they … Continue reading
Winter growth
This winter is so mild that there is plenty of growth even in mid-January. The tulips are peaking above the soil and the herbs are doing very well, especially parsley, oregano and thyme. It certainly feels like Spring already – … Continue reading
Pruning berry plants
Another tip from my helpful gardening books, I discovered I was meant to prune the berry bushes in August when they had finished fruiting. Surely it’s not too late?! This is my first time owning these plants and I had … Continue reading
Forcing Rhubarb
For Christmas I was given a number of useful books on what to do and when to do it in the garden. Looking at January it said to ‘force the rhubarb’. Sounds rather nasty, but all it means is putting … Continue reading
Final harvest
After a couple of hours effort, my garden is all cleared from the summer growth. It’s less than half the size it was and is reduced to 2 raspberry plants, a blueberry, basil, rosemary, marjoram, rhubarb and 2 tree saplings. … Continue reading
Finding blight
Oh dreaded blight! After such a wet and cold summer I guess it’s no surprise that it spread so badly. Half of my tomatoes and potatoes had blight rot on them. We still got some beautiful potatoes though, so it … Continue reading
What to plant for winter
Often people are impressed by vegetable gardening, whereas in reality I don’t know much more than they do. I sort of bumble along making guesses and seeing how it goes. The community allotment is great because the 4 of us … Continue reading
It’s good to hope and dream
When I looked at the garden this morning I saw a sunflower blooming and a tomato going red. Even though it’s getting colder, it’s not really cold yet… the plants obviously don’t think so anyway. It’s good to hope and … Continue reading
Dreaming of red tomatoes
During our travels in Italy we passed garden after garden of beautiful bright red tomatoes. Each time we saw them a wave of hope came to me that perhaps the UK would get some of the lovely sunny warmth from … Continue reading