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In the Garden this Week

In the garden: Until this morning’s heavy downpour things were getting a bit parched in the garden, with a decidedly end-of-summer look, but a good soaking rain should reinvigorate things. On the...

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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Andrew has tidied up the soft fruit beds and mulched them with well-rotted manure and  dug one bed after spreading more manure on it in readiness for the potatoes.

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Grow your own

We are now eating our own potatoes – the Charlottes have cropped well and taste great and we should have the first picking of runner beans this weekend.  The soft fruit is in full swing and Andrew is...

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Fight Against Blight

Forewarned is forearmed  so last month I registered with the website www.potato.org.uk/blight . You put in your postal code and they let you know if there is blight reported in your area.  Earlier...

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Brocks away

Andrew had to abandon all other tasks and dig part of the potato crop as the badgers have been helping themselves!

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Fight Against Blight

Forewarned is forearmed  so last month I registered with the website www.potato.org.uk/blight . You put in your postal code and they let you know if there is blight reported in your area.  Earlier...

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Sow when they want to Grow

Normally by this time of year I’ve done loads of seed sowing in the greenhouse, but I’ve been concentrating on getting the garden tidy before everything starts into growth, so other than autumn-sown...

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