Join Eli and Kate and share the gardening fun
Looking for the perfect gift for the gardener in your life but want to avoid the hustle of crowded shops and the eye-watering prices of fancy gadgets? You’re in the right place! Let’s explore some thoughtful, creative, and downright charming gift ideas that don’t involve pulling out your wallet—just a […]
I’m sharing my unexpected journey into growing daffodils for a horticultural show, having previously deemed them dull. Influenced by a friend, I’m explore various daffodil divisions, potting techniques, and the significance of timing in bloom preparation. I hope I can encourage yous to join in, promising insights and community connection in gardening.
Sharing my experience entering a local gardening show for the first time, initial nerves and ultimate surprise at winning second place for their onions.
We’ve spent a couple of weeks building a new planter for the garden, it’s multi-leveled and modular. In other words, three separate parts make up the planter allowing us to change the shape to suit. But for now, it’s a corner as we designed it and built it specifically for […]
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 […]
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 […]
So maybe you are just tired of your plants getting trashed by frost and ice during the winter months? Or maybe you are trying to steal an extra few weeks of growing from Mother Nature. Either way, we’ve been doing a wee experiment in the garden that might be what […]
Sometimes it absolutely astounds me just how expensive ready-made garden beds and planters are, especially given that making your own is way easier than people think. You guys have already seen us make our huge raised beds, but this week we’ve gone smaller and made a couple of long wooden […]
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 […]
It’s December which means it’s cold and dark and wet in our garden, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. No no no. In fact, I have a list of jobs that need to be done that are specifically put aside for those cold wet days, because they can all […]
