Rotating crops: don’t bother
I am not someone who readily does as they’re told. Ask my mum. You know those annoying children for whom …
Tag Archives: pests and diseases
Garlic, beans and onions
Sowing now: Garlic It is still hideously soggy outside and far too cold to sow just yet: but in between …
Splitting the difference
Bother. My tomatoes have gone and split on me. This, of course, is my own silly fault. Tomatoes split for …
October garden: Greenhouses and fruit garden
The slow dying of the greenhouses is the swansong of my year. They’re the last to go: long after the …
Garden words: The January Review
Wicked Bugs Amy Stewart There are some books that just make you go ‘Well. I never knew that.’ And then …
Not the colorado beetle
My poor new potatoes are suffering a nasty attack of early blight. Not quite as nasty as late blight, as …
Bzzzzzzz
Look what we found on our kitchen wall the other day. Apologies for the quality of the picture, but if …
Plant of the month: August
Lilium ‘Original Love’ At the risk of sounding a little, well, unfeminine…… Phwoooooaarrr. We’ve been watching this one unfurl for …
Mystery blobs
Any idea what this is? Found all over some small silver birch trees, while we were rambling about the countryside …
Oy! Gerroff me geraniums!
Would you just look at this? This has been going on for a month now, and at first I put …
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