Category: gardening
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Dahlias: investing in your garden
Gardens are one of the last things people thing of when renovating a house. We are lucky that we have a well established front and back garden in the new house but there is still things I want to add as well as move, trim and replace. If you spend time outside and like entertaining…
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Tomato update: learning to grow you own produce
Quick catch up, I bought a single tomato for 85p. It was the tastiest tomato I have ever eaten so I wanted to try and grow it from seed. So I started with 15 plants and I have 4 surviving. They are over 3 foot tall and all look healthy. We are heading for another…
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Healthy habits: Ten minute meditation in the garden
I have a small garden, mostly in containers with some large shrubs and trees, my faux lawn ( inherited ) means that I can maintain it fairly easily but it still takes effort. Gardener extraordinaire Butter Wakefield suggests a healthy garden is maintained in ten minutes a day rather than hours at the weekend. This…
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Is a hose pipe ban on the way?
Next week is August and the temperatures are set to soar again. It may shock you to hear that in England, known for lush green lawns and a lot of rain. We can’t cope when it comes to the weather! We are such a mild country that any extremes completely throw us off! Snow =…
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Patience in the garden: 3 little wins
It’s finally happened, we have three mini celebrations. First is my agapanthus, I have waited over two years for this gorgeous plant to flower and today she has five flowers open. Gardening takes patience. The right place and soil. Next my tomato plants, the ones I grew from a Marks and Spenser tomato, that I…
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Tomato Plant update
Fascinating I know! But I have been through a lot with my tomato plants. I was so happy last year with my twenty plants that grew a whole 5 tomatoes! Five. Twenty plants I cared for and looked after. I even used a paintbrush to help the pollination. So this year I started with a…
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Growing my own tea
Last year I thought about what I wanted to plant and what I wanted to get from my garden. I have always loved daisies and simple flowers so the idea of growing edible flowers sounds great to me. The seeds are tiny, you do need to make sure you pick the edible ones I really…
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26. Letting it flower
I love sweet peas, pretty easy to grow, produce lots of lovely flowers, smell great and cutting encourages growth. Last year I had hundreds of flowers and because of a mild winter they were blooming till December! And I cut some and let some flower till they go to seed. So then I have seeds…
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17. Treat yourself
Three years ago I fell in love with Clematis Montana, a monster of a clematis that is beyond delicate and beautiful. I wanted it so much that I bought four teenie tiny plants. When they turned up they started to grow but nothing impressive. I doubted they would survive the winter but they did. Clematis…
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16. Damp soil is key to healthy sowing
Good morning I am off to Notting hill today so a super short post so I will try and write another one tomorrow. Damp healthy soil is key for young seedlings. Try and use an atomiser or water from the bottom so you don’t bruise or damage young leaves. Also don’t give up. My tomatoes…
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