Even though the weather has prevented me finishing my winter digging in borders, I did manage to venture into the greenhouse last weekend.
Trying to stay busy I decided to check over my potted plants for pests and diseases. One plant that caught my eye was a hellebore, which I bought bare rooted last autumn.
The foliage is showing signs of either…
I’m in my garden whenever I can manage it, but I have to admit that even I struggled to get out there this week. There was no snow, but the soil was rock-hard and frozen so no digging action for me!
Because of this I took advantage of my greenhouse and managed a bit of sowing, mostly chilies (with a few…
Following last week’s cold snap, I was all braced to be shovelling snow from around the car to get to work this morning, but Murphy’s Law (or should that be Sod’s Law!) had other ideas.
By Friday my garden had been frozen solid for a good 48 hours – the sun just isn’t getting high enough to cast it’s warmth across…
Moving with the times.
Regular readers of Amateur Gardening will remember my article on transplanting trees (8th October 2011); well I thought you might like an update.
I am delighted to say that my summer fruiting cherry tree, ‘Summer Sun’ is doing well. The mild winter I have had so far and with transplanting it at the very beginning of the dormant…
We all know that we need to take care of our tools. We cannot garden without them. My Felcos were really in need of some attention this weekend.
A lecturer at Sparsholt College once told me that tomato ketchup works wonders with dirty cutting blades, and he was right!
They do smell for a while, but for an organic way to clean,…
January is nearly gone, and so too are the high street sales. But don’t forget the garden centres. You have just a week left to bag yourself a bargain for the garden.
I’ve picked up some great discounted items at my local centre in the past week or so, and I could have kept on spending. A quality shovel for just…
I really seem to be hitting my garden hard at the moment. Although I’ve had some frosts they have cleared quickly thanks to the glorious sea air that my south coast garden is exposed to, giving me no excuse to get out there.
There is a downside being close to the sea: the salt. Last week I checked over the ties…
I’m still trawling around local retailers on the look out for a fence panel to replace one lost in the storms earlier this month, with no luck. My garden has been accessible to anyone who fancies a poke around, thanks to the shortage.
I’ve tried to make do and mend, but the old panel falls back down with the slightest of…
This weekend, in my spare time (never seems a lot)! I concentrated on my greenhouse. I always do an autumn clean up but find I am more thorough doing it in January.
I think it’s because the next growing season is looming and I always want to start off organised. Something usually happens to change that, but every year I start…
How did you spend New Year’s Day? I started 2012 by being dangled from the top of the 165-foot high roof of the Eden Project and I should warn you now that it’s not for the faint-hearted, writes AG news editor Marc Rosenberg.
Let me explain. I decided to burn off the excesses of Christmas and the New Year by climbing…
