Growing Garlic with Onions and Leeks
It’s mid October in the UK, which is a great time to start planting your Garlic. Garlic can be planted from September to March depending on what variety is grown. […]
It’s mid October in the UK, which is a great time to start planting your Garlic. Garlic can be planted from September to March depending on what variety is grown. […]
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post but we have finally moved into a greener, less polluted part of Essex in the countryside. Life here is […]
The tomato plants were slow to get growing this year and never really reached a great height but finally the red tomatoes are here. We are growing a few different […]
I have wanted to grow Borlotto beans for years so this year when I saw there was a dwarf variety of Borlotto bean, I jumped at the chance to sow […]
August is prime harvest time. The salad crops like lettuce and spinach need to be picked regularly otherwise with the rising heat, they will normally bolt and start flowering. Some […]
In May of this year I wrote my original post in this trial, if you haven’t read it, see here: The Keep Out Cabbage White Butterfly Cage Trial. I’m now […]
I keep saying I’m not very good at growing flowers, vegetables and now fruit seems to be my thing. However in the vegetables garden this summer, there seems to be […]
The new fruit plants – 2 blueberries bushes, 1 blackberry bush, 5 summer fruiting raspberry canes and 2nd strawberry plants have all performed extremely well this year with regular harvests […]
It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and […]
The Marigolds Ring of Steel (here’s my original post) has been very successful at keeping away greenfly and blackfly from the tomatoes this year. I was getting so much greenfly […]