The Basics of Organic Gardening & Tips on Sustainability
Organic gardening and organic growing mean to team up and work alongside natural systems and cycles in your garden. In…
Bumblebees – Friends of Every Gardener
One good turn deserves another and bumblebees are very aware of this proverb. Encourage bumblebees to your garden and they…
Post-Storm Inspiration – out and about enjoyment
Thinking of one’s garden may be far from the minds of many readers who have been affected by gales and…
catalogues
flowers
fruit
garden diary
jotters
journals
met office
National Trust
photography
pollinators
squash
Vegetables
weather
wilderness
May Miscellany
Sunshine at last here in the north Cotswolds (second day running!) and, according to the Met Office weather chart, it’s…
Progress of one sort and another
I don’t know what it has been like this last week in gardens and allotments all over the country, but…
Helping Hands – advice and information
I have just returned from The Edible Garden Show (TEGS) at Stoneleigh Park, right in the heart of the Midlands,…
apple & pears
fruit
garden visits
General
herbs
Houseplants
National Trust
pollinators
seeds
tools & equipment
Vegetables
March Miscellany
I’ve been out and about in the last seven days, as well as venturing into the garden. The square-metre plot…
Allotments
garden care
ladybirds
plant protection
pollinators
potager progress
tools & equipment
weeds
winter greens
False Spring?
Here in the north Cotswolds it has been remarkably warm this last week; so much so, we were able to…
Kitchen Garden Update
Not much has been happening in my mini kitchen garden of late here in the north Cotswolds – not so…
Fly the flag for insects and creepy-crawlies
We are apt to forget that some of the smallest creatures to inhabit our gardens are as useful to its…