How to Encourage Children to Garden
Encouraging your children to garden is not always easy but is a great way to introduce them to nature and…
National Gardening Week 2021
National Gardening Week is held between 26th April to 2nd May 2021 and celebrates the greatest aspects of gardening and…
Rain, rain and more rain!
After a more than unusually warm end to March, with accompanying drought, is there anywhere that is not now soggy…
decorative plants
eco-friendly garden
flowers
gardening with children
potager
RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
seeds
wildlife
End of month miscellany
With the mild weather we’ve had this January, I should have been out in the garden, titivating the potager and…
Gardening Book Recommendations
There’s something about August and – for those with children – the school holiday period, that has one thinking of…
begonias
garden compost
garden societies and allotments
gardening with children
potagers
potatoes
scarecrows
Three Counties Show (Malvern)
vegeable plots
vegetables
June Miscellany: pest control, begonias and vegetables
Scarecrows, begonias and an update on our allotment and new potager all feature in this first June posting. As the…
annuals
Cotswold garden
Dobies of Devon
gardeners' kitchen
gardening books
gardening with children
planning
planters
potager
pots
seeds and plants
shrubs
vegetable plot
vegetables
Planning the Perfect Potager
Rain in the wind, and falling from the sky – and I wonder when I will ever get back to…
Cotswold garden
crop rotation
Dobies catalogues
Dobies of Devon
gardening with children
planning
seeds and plants
Garden Planning and Crop Rotation
out in the garden taking stock: new plans and tasks that need attention (the first in my case must be…