We grow many different dwarf french beans (don't like runners!). We have never had issues with them apart from slugs and snails. Are you sure a...
At last saw 2 swifts flying around the garden and then one swallow. Numbers so low.
Well what a day! Started with blue skies and sunshine. Then grey clouds. Then torrential rain. Then sleet. Then sunshine. Then torrential rain....
Only managed to plant out some more strawberry plants in the polytunnel. Nothing outside as weather so bad.
This morning was a garden visit in our village with members from the garden club. Some superb plants and the colours really standing out. A great...
Unfortunately it is said that we all have rats near us and yes when we feed the birds they do become more obvious as they pick up the bits dropped...
Planted out some new strawberry plants in the new polytunnel. Sowed radish and carrots also in the tunnel. Yes I know that everybody sows these...
£250 on a 8 foot tree fern 4 years ago and now coming up with fabulous fronds again.
We visited Athelhampton Gardens near Dorchester yesterday. Weather was good and able to sit down at various places to take in the plants. Over the...
Yet again working in the garden a robin comes to check what I am doing. It gets very close and tilts its head as though waiting for me to say...
Sowed some beetroot seeds outside. Weeded in amongst the leeks and shallots. Sowed some more onion seeds in spaces where some have disappeared....
We did build our own over 20 years ago and it was a job worth doing as the crops over all those years were great. Last week though we had a new...
We did try one of those sonic deterrents many years ago and then watched a rabbit sitting directly in front of it. Just our luck to have a deaf...
Sorry to hear about all the issues that rabbits do in your garden. We put up a chicken wire fence around the main veg areas in our garden many...
As part of the NGS we visited some gardens in the small village of Wick, near Langport, Somerset this afternoon. One of the gardens is also a...
@cactus_girl we also have tatty fronds but we leave them as they give some protection in the winter as they hang down over the trunk. However you...
@cactus_girl We bought a trachy many years ago for our Christmas tree. We decorated it with very fine gold ornaments and after the holiday planted...
We planted our pumpkins in an old compost area last year. They grew slowly to begin with and then took off. The bin is underneath our very ancient...
No photo but we needed to replace fixed log roll edging in our new polytunnel. A lot is now not as good quality as previous years. However and...
@David K How fantastic to have so many flowers. Ours are still growing up and clinging onto supports. Amazing and hopefully they smell lovely.
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