How to force strawberries
Imagine a bowl. Now fill it with gleaming, just-picked strawberries, perhaps just a little warm from the touch of the …
Category Archives: container growing
Happy New Year!
Nope – not quite crazy (yet). It may be September and only barely autumn, but the veg grower’s new year starts here.
My list of crops to get under way for the new season right now includes autumn-sown onions, hardy broad beans, spring cabbages and salads – lots and lots of salads.
Plant yourself a coronavirus veg garden
So here we all are, stuck at home with time on our hands, chaos in the supermarkets, trying not to …
Herby adventures
I have been planting herbs. More to the point, I have been experimenting with herb containers: a gardening marriage made …
Pick of the month: June
Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ To quote a well-known advert for a certain shop which used to sell clothing but now …
A housewarming present
My poor container plants are all higgledy-piggledy. There are geraniums on the steps and a loquat tree teetering on the …
Pocket-sized vegetables
Now, if the seed companies and garden centres and all those people trying to sell you stuff are to be …
Bargain hunting
Off down the garden centre on a hot tip this weekend to find spring bulbs slashed to just 50p a …
Return of the Rumble Memorial Pot
You know, I’m supposed to have a pretty container frothing with flowers just outside my front door to welcome visitors. …
Sally Nex 