Clip It
As the season goes on, you need to make sure that fruiting plants can bear the weight of the bountiful harvest you hope to have. … More Clip It
As the season goes on, you need to make sure that fruiting plants can bear the weight of the bountiful harvest you hope to have. … More Clip It
The hot pink cyclamen has started to blossom again and whilst many plants are dying off there are just as many waiting to burst into life.
… More In The Pink
There comes a time you feel you might need a little bit of inner warmth and what better way than to add chilli to the menu.
… More Some Like It Hot
Annoying they may be, especially when chewing their way through your produce but you can’t help admiring their perfection. … More Caught In The Act
When is a mint not a mint? … More The Awesome Indian Mint
I don’t think of the walking or Egyptian onion without the song ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ coming to mind. Whether or not it was ever in Egypt is not known but what is known is – it does walk. … More Walk Like An Egyptian
I’ve been fairly fortunate this year, in spite of reports of invasions of wasps, I haven’t seen too many. There was one buzzing around the greenhouse when I was struggling with the bubble wrap and in fact, I was so engrossed in what I was doing, I almost didn’t look to see what was tickling … More Is It A Horror?
Admitting that there are more hours of darkness than there are light, results in removing shading from a greenhouse. That was the easy bit but replacing it with the winter insulation is quite different. … More How Not To Bubble Wrap A Greenhouse
Ground attacks by slugs and snails may attack the plants but a predator is worse if it attacks the gardener. … More Culicoides Impunctatus
The end of summer harvests usually include pumpkins and squashes, if you have the space. I don’t but that didn’t keep me back when I grew a ‘trombone’. … More Trombones In The Garden