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I’ve been making my own compost at home for years now, but I still don’t consider myself an expert. Mainly because there is so much you can learn and so many interesting and amazing things you pick up along the way so you are never an expert. However I do […]
So we have our first update of our pepper plant pruning experiment and we also have our first update on the overwintered pepper experiment. Part 1 Back in September last year, I began this experiment with the peppers we had grown and which were now at the end of their […]
I’ve been thinking a lot this season about how we can make our gardens better and I truly believe that if you change this one habit you can make your garden the envy of all your friends and make you a much better gardener… 110% I believe that some form […]
It’s mid-April and the changes in both gardens are absolutely stupendous. The gardens are absolutely springing to life, full of colourful spring bulbs, blossoms on the trees and vegetable beds bursting with food. Join us on a walk around both our gardens and we’ll tell you what’s going on, what’s […]
The last few weeks are a bit of a thing in the gardening world where we fool ourselves into thinking its spring (we don’t really fool ourselves at all we just try to) and expect the garden to be luscious and beautiful because it’s spring. But the truth is, it […]
In this week’s bumper of an episode, you’ll see my amazing acting skills (even if I do say so myself) as I recreate the drama that caused me to kill most of my pepper, tomato and aubergine seedlings. And…… I’ll take you through pricking out and potting on. It’s super […]
As always January for us is about getting ready for the coming season, usually beginning with the day in the warmth of the indoors, with a cuppa and a biscuit browsing seed catalogues and websites deciding on what we are going to grow in the coming months. There will definitely […]
When we put a wee snippet into our video showing you how to sterilise your potting mix, we didn’t expect the response it generated. Another one of those wee things I had assumed everyone knew how to do or at least knew why they might choose to do it. Boy […]
You absolutely don’t need to fork out for expensive seed starting soils or mixes from the garden centre. If you need more than a small bag, it’s much cheaper to make your own and it’s very, very simple and needs only a couple of ingredients. As always there is a […]
The darker, colder winter months are when gardeners all yearn for spring. But for the thoughtful gardeners, this doesn’t have to be a void where there is no gardening to be had. Instead, on days when we can’t be out working in the garden, we could instead be doing our […]
