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 […]
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Eat, Sow, Grow: July in our vegetable garden
Comments are DisabledJuly is awesome. Not just cause it’s party month (my birthday and our wedding anniversary) but because July is usually the month of abundance in the vegetable garden with beetroot, courgettes, peas, blueberries, strawberries, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and loads more. This year has been a tad more exciting than […]
Gardener’s question time: I brought in some allotmenteers to answer your questions
Comments are DisabledThis week I’ve been working on something special. A few weeks ago I asked if you had any questions you wanted to send in and I’d do my best to get you some answers. Well you asked loads of brilliant questions and to be fair, my knowledge and experience only […]
We’re trying some new strawberries
Comments are DisabledStrawberries might just be our most successful harvest ever, since we got on top of the beastie problem, we’ve never had a bad year. So you’ll probably think we are mad if I tell you that we scrapped our strawberry bed and all the plants? Well not to fear, we […]
My top 5 tips to help you to have a successful strawberry growing season
1 commentWe have had the most unbelievably awesome, strawberry growing season this year. To be fair, it’s not always been that way, but this year! WOW! So I thought today would be a fantastic chance to share some of my experience with you guys and give you my top tips so […]
Did the copper tape defeat the slugs and save my strawberries?
Comments are DisabledYou betcha! So… strawberries, slugs, copper tape. I promised you an update after I put copper tape around the raised bed with the strawberries growing in it, hoping it would deter the slugs from eating all my strawberries like in previous years.Well I am pleased to say it definitely works. […]



