Peas, apple blossom and self-sown chard
Hello! How has your gardening week been? Mine has been mostly full of light and warmth, bar a few spectacularly …
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Dandelions, Brussels sprouts and new potatoes
Hello to you all and I hope you’ve had a great gardening week! I am feeling the panic rising now …
Bees, tomatoes and marigolds
Hello again! Here we are in mid-February already and I’m getting that all too familiar feeling of the year speeding …
A living heritage
The best email to pop into my inbox all year is the one from the Heritage Seed Library announcing the …
Garlic, beans and onions
Sowing now: Garlic It is still hideously soggy outside and far too cold to sow just yet: but in between …
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.
The October veg garden
Harvesting this month: French beans, carrots, the last of the courgettes and patty pan summer squash, Musquee de Provence winter …
Gardening without plastic: Seed trays #2
So: onward and upward with my efforts to replace my stack of green and black plastic seed trays with lovely organic …
Gardening without plastic: Seed trays #1
The year marches on: and I thought it was about time I gave a little update on where I’m at in …
A (gardening) life less plastic
One morning towards the end of last year some time, I skipped in to my garden as usual through the little …
Sally Nex 