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Tag Archives: garden
Let the planting commence!
I managed to get my first early potatoes planted into the ground on my half Now that the weather is warming up a little, they should be fine. I don’t plot.have the strength at the moment to dig a … Continue reading
The Mound at Park Lane!
Now I like a challenge as much as the next person, but even I was initially put off by the mound that was on our new allotment plot that we now call Park Lane. It seemed like such a daunting project … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged Allotment, carpet, garden, membrane, Mound, Park Lane, raised bed garden, soil, vegetable, weed suppresant membrane, weeds
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April Update
First of all let me apologise for my lack of posts recently. The weather had a major part to play in my lack of writing as I was unable to get out either into the garden or on my plot … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged compost, couch grass, Easter, garden, leaf mould, raised bed garden, raised beds, rotovator, weeds
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National Garden Week
After watching an episode of gardeners world on BBC, Monty don reminded me that it was National Garden Week this week and the main focus was to encourage more people to grow wildflowers within their garden. Many wild flowers are … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Information
Tagged BBC, bees, butterflies, garden, Gardeners world, Monty Don, National Gardeners Week, National Gardening Week, Plant, pollinating, pollinating insects, Seed, sow, Wildflower
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What to do in April
Ideally, vegetable and fruit growing should be keeping us busy mostly this month but with the cold wintery conditions that we have been experiencing here in the UK, we are so far behind. I wonder whether we will really ever catch … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, What to do this month
Tagged Allotment, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, calabrese, cauliflower, Chilli, compost, fruit, garden, Garlic, Green bean, Harden, Jerusalem artichoke, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, Plant, plants, potato, potatoes, Seed, seeds, Shallot, shallots, sow, Sowing, turnips, vegetable, winter squash
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Fighting for space!
There‘s a new seed sowing phenomenon gracing our gardening stores in the form of seed tape and seed discs or mats. Now I know that these are not completely new ideas as seedtape has been available for a while now, but … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Seeds
Tagged Allotment, container plants, garden, Germination, hanging baskets, Plant, plant spacing, plants, Seed, sow, Sowing, thinning plants, transplanting, Transplants, vegetable
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Thyme is precious
My blogs are normally focused around my fruit and veg growing escapades but it’s not very often that I mention herbs. Fresh herbs from your own garden have a taste that is like no other. They are so easy to … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Spot light on......
Tagged common thyme, cuttings, garden, Herb, herb plant, herb plants, herbs, lemon thyme, mediterranean plants, Plant, Plant propagation, Thyme, Thymus vulgaris
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Resisting temptation in favour of recycling!
After ordering a few plants or seeds a while ago from a few online fruit and veg merchants, I have been inundated with their glossy gardening catalogues ever since. At first I was quite excited to receive these in the post (sad heh!), … Continue reading
Posted in recycle
Tagged biodegradable, compost, container plants, garden, garden catalogues, glossy catalogues, greenhouse, Home and Garden, manure, Plastic, Recycle, Recycling, Root trainer, vegetable
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Feeding birds in Winter
When the cold weather strikes, the chances of birds visiting our gardens increase dramatically. Food for birds is very scare and hard to come by in the winter months, especially when the ground is covered with a thick blanket of … Continue reading
Posted in Information, Wildlife
Tagged birdbath, birds, fatballs, feeding birds, garden, grains, meal worms, nuts, pollen, seeds, sunflowers, winter
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Spot light on ……Pumpkins and Squash
Winter squash come in a vast array of sizes, shapes and colours and are relatively easy to grow. They are a member of the curcurbit family that includes cucumber, melon, marrow and courgettes. There a predominately two types of plants – bushes and trailing; both … Continue reading
Posted in Spot light on......
Tagged Allotment, atlantic giant, BBC, butternut, butternut squash, compost, Courgette, crown prince, cucumber, curcurbit, fruit, garden, Gardeners world, hard frost, manure, melon, Monty Don, mulch, onion fly, onion squash, plants, powdery mildew, protection, Pumpkin, seeds, spring, squash vine borer, table queen acorn, vegetable, vertical growing, winter squash
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