So the garden has been blanketed in about 20cms of snow. It arrived one night and gave us enough for a fantastic day of sledding. The weather had been very cold for a few days and simply finished off any of the half tender plants in the garden. I know I’ve blogged about this before [...]
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Now is the time to start getting your beg plot prepared for the next growing season. This means making sure the soil is in the best condition for whatever you’ll be growing in it. By laying down a thick mulch of well rotted manure you’ll be creating great conditions for your hungry veg next year. [...] My main project this year is to get the garden much more productive: Get rid of the frou frou wooden growing beds and go back to a single bordered growing patch on one side of the vegetable bed. Easier to dig over and much easier to get manure on to. Spread manure everywhere. The garden is [...] Garlic leaf shoots Remember me warning about the dangers of planting things too early and how I was going to try some January planted garlic? Well in this case my gamble seems to have paid off. I covered the buried cloves with a cloche and some gardening fleece. I was worried that I had [...] It’s around this time of year that things start to get a little busy in the garden. Not only are you doing loads of preparation for the spring and summer to some you also need to get ahead of the game wth your planting. Whilst all my three propogators are humming away with a variety [...] Please let me know if you have found a way to do it. Everything I read about the plant suggests it would make a really useful addition to my garden as it meets my criteria for being both functional and attractive. I’ve frozen it, soaked it, warmed it up and still those little hard nuts [...] If I was to write the true gardening calendar of my garden it would go something like this: January – dig out bindweed roots February – dig out bindweed roots March – dig out bindweed roots April – dig out bindweed roots May – dig out bindweed roots Anyhow you get the picture by now. [...] Here’s an interesting article from the Financial Times today that talks about how sales of seeds in the US are growing massively in the face of the economic downturn. I’m not one to wallow in the positive benefits of economic decline (I’m not sure there are many) but if this can help turn a new [...] My blog is all about local sustainable suburban production of produce with a major focus on high value items like cider. Although I tend my cider apple trees as though they are delicate pensioners that need all the pampering I can provide there are times when I see things that make me want to make this [...] Normally I get mr garlic planted in October or early november and by January the cloves have already produced the first green sprouts to over winter. This year though I left it too late. I was still keen to try and plant some though. Research (well Sarah Raven’s Great Vegetable Plot) told me that you [...] |
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