We seem to have a week for everything these days – National Potato Week, National Sausage Week, National Get Outraged About Something Really Strange Week. Yesterday we talked about International…
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Where there’s muck there’s magic
One of the most common questions we are asked is How can I make good homemade compost? Ours is all sludgy/smelly/dried out’. This week is International Compost Awareness Week –…
‘No Mow May’ and a general late spring update
Well here we are, the first weekend of May already and the garden is looking sumptuous. It still has that freshness of spring that gradually fades when summer’s heat grows,…
Plants we must have, plants we can’t have…
Garry Coward-Williams, editor Every plant variety in my garden fulfils a different role and thereby a unique place in my horticultural affections; the highlights of this year so far are…
Planting evergreens
Spring and autumn is traditionally the best time to plant evergreens. Thinking back to February and March, I recall the garden was still firmly in the grasp of winter. The…
Life on the allotment – beans, courgettes and lettuces
Beans About ten days ago I planted my runner beans, climbing French beans and dwarf French beans for the allotment in cardboard toilet-roll tubes. I normally sow all my beans…
Stop Press: Saturday deliveries suspended
The Post Office has announced that Saturday postal deliveries will cease as of May 2, 2020 and will remain so until further notice. This is due to the huge burden…
Re-starting agapanthus – and our seeds arrive!
After several years of half-hearted flowering, last summer our agapanthus did us proud. We have three clumps in pots and two in the borders and they all flowered amazingly, possibly…
Easy peasy pea sowing
Few things taste as good as fresh peas straight from the garden. That sweet, crunchy taste is simply a mouthful of summer and peas are so easy to grow, it…
Woohoo! It’s National Gardening Week!
This week is National Gardening Week (though we thought every week was gardening week!) and to celebrate this fantastic festival of growing we would like to hear what YOU are…