The weather this spring has been so crazy with extended cold snaps, snow and so much rain that the garden is really looking a bit drab and is definitely the spring buzz I was hoping for. I won’t lie, it’s all starting to get to me and I desperately want […]
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We got power and heating in the greenhouse
2 commentsIt has been a long time coming (9 years) but this spring we have heating in the greenhouse helping us get a head start on this year’s veg. Not just veg but mostly veg. And of course, just to be very clear, you absolutely don’t need heating or power in […]
Let’s talk tomato plants and stress
Comments are Disabled…and the stress I’m referring to is mostly that of the owner of said tomato plants. I have been seeing a whole heap of anxiety on social media over the last few weeks around tomato plants and the growers worry about how their plants fair against others. You know, the […]
April is when the garden really bursts into life
Comments are DisabledApril is most definitely when the garden really starts to get going. The dark, wet winter really seems to be behind us now, apart from the odd frosty morning, and most days are warmer and dare I say it, we’re evening seeing a little bit of sunshine. There are just […]
Setting up the greenhouse for the summer season with my self-watering pots
2 commentsI think April might just be the most exciting and most infuriating month in my gardening calendar. The weather can be scorching sun on day and snow the next, as we’ve seen in Scotland over the last couple of weeks. And those changes are really frustrating when you are an […]
Hardening off your plants – it’s a bit like lifting lockdown
Comments are DisabledBy now I think most of us have at least some little baby plants and a whole lot of desire to get them out into the garden. So I feel it’s only right for me to jump up on that soapbox, with a little help from a small step, and […]
Giving the cherry trees a new home
Comments are DisabledAs you guys know, we have a bit of a nightmare with trees in our garden. There are a couple of reasons, firstly the wind just seems to burn so much of the new, more delicate growth and secondly, we just suck at the whole tree in a container thing. […]
The best way to organise a greenhouse
Comments are DisabledWe aren’t all lucky enough to have huge gardens and enormous greenhouses, so we need to be a bit clever about how we organise the space, to make the most of what we have. I’ve done vlogs and blogs on this topic before and took you guys along as I […]
Sowing under cover or what’s with the milk jugs?
Comments are DisabledI swear, every time I turned on social media over the last few months, someone is sticking some seeds in a big plastic milk carton. What’s going on? The interwebs is a weird and wonderful place. So a wee bit of research (what I mean is I spoke to a […]
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 […]
