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If you have grown plants indoors or using heat and grow lights in order to get a jump start on the season. Then the next step before you transplant them out into your garden is to harden them off. It sounds like a traumatic, complicated thing, but really it comes […]
There’s no doubt about it, your garden is never big enough. So when you run out of space for flower beds, veg beds, herb beds or collections of containers. Vertical gardening is the next option. The idea of vertical gardening is that you make use of space that you normally […]
If you ever have a conversation with me about gardening, one of the things you’ll notice is that I don’t use a lot of the “gardening jargon”, and by that, I mean that you will never hear me use Latin names for plants, or talk about cotyledon leaves and many […]
I fell in love with dahlias by accident back in 2012. I had no idea what a dahlia was, back then I just chose things to grow because the picture on the seed packet captured me. That’s how my journey with dahlias started. It’s was dahlia Yankee Doodle dandy. I […]
There is a bit of trepidation about growing petunias from seed, with most gardeners preferring to buy small plug plants and grow these on. It’s a shame though because petunias are no more difficult to grow than any other flowers. The seeds are just smaller, a lot smaller. The main […]
It’s been a hard year so far, after my decision to hang back from early seed sowing and instead wait for the promise of warmer days in March. Yes there are lots of benefits, including the ability to sow seeds without the desperate need for heat mats and lights, but […]
Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Today is all about pricking out and potting on (or even transplanting) onion seedlings! If you’re not familiar with the terms, don’t worry, we’ll get into it. First off, let’s take a moment to appreciate my adorable little onion seedlings. They may […]
At least once a week I’m asked how I organize my seeds, and until now I didn’t think I was doing anything fancy, but I’ve realized that actually I have a pretty nifty system for storing seeds and organizing them to make it easy to find what I need and […]
This week I’ve started the first in a series – so for all you tomato growers or would-be tomato growers, this is for you. This one is all the background info you need to know in order to grow tomatoes successfully. It isn’t about having a greenhouse or grow lights […]
For me, the one thing I associate with Instagram is all those photos of the most amazing and crazy-coloured tomatoes. Some of them are just beautiful, so it’s easy to imagine just how many of those varieties are grown simply because of how they look. Obviously, though there are other […]
