Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
Herbs are an essential element for any kitchen gardener. They’re simple to grow in borders, window boxes or decorative containers. As well as bringing charm and fragrance to your garden,…
Small Space, Indoor, Windowsill & Patio Gardening
Over the past year, many of us have found the solace in gardening but space can be tight. This can be really frustrating, but there are other ways to grow…
Home-grown Herbal Tea
A mug of builder’s tea may be a traditional kick start to the day but more of us than ever are now drinking herbal tea. And what can better than…
Elephant Herbs
Dobies continue to supply seeds and plants to Michelin star chef Simon Hulstone to grow on his farm and to then serve in his Torquay restaurant, The Elephant. In addition…
Cotswold Acre Memories
It’s surprising what will trigger a garden memory, or where an early love of gardening acquired in childhood may lead. For me, it was helping my grandmother deadhead annuals during…
September Gardening Gleanings
As my four-year stint writing this blog for Dobies of Devon comes towards its end, I approach the future with a sense of adventure. Harvest in (well most of it)…
Gardening Opportunities
If you live, as we do, where Winter extends into Summer and we have little or no Spring, and then suddenly Autumn creeps upon us unawares, it seems highly sensible…
July Gardening Miscellany
Weatherwise, it’s been perfect for gardening; just a little rain, but all my newly acquired plants are now well established, and the ‘hungry’ ones – beans and sweet-peas – are…
Flower Garden Vegetables
How many gardeners, I wonder, are adamant that flowers and vegetables should never mix, but be kept apart – one is pure decoration, the other grown for the kitchen. This…
Small Scale Gardening
I so frequently advocate gaining inspiration for one’s own garden from visits to ‘stately homes’ that it is all too easy to forget what is on one’s own doorstep. Actually,…