I’m nurturing a refugee camp in my greenhouse and garden. Since at present I can’t dig holes or do any weeding, I have a whole troop of plants that need to be planted. If I’m honest I can’t resist buying the drastically reduced and badly cared for plants at my local garden centre. Read more…
I’ve got some interesting things to sow at the moment. Suttons have sent me a Winter Mix Leaf salad that can be sown Feb to October so there’s still plenty of time to sow and grow more winter leaves. Read more…
Growing potatoes for Christmas lunch has become a bit of a fad in some gardening circles. The idea is that you plant them now and grow them on in the greenhouse and harvest them on Christmas day to eat with your nut roast, or whatever your festive lunch consists of. Read more…
Having watched disappointed as my bee swarm take off over the house last week, I was amazed to find a large swarm of honeybees hanging from a tree about 300yds from my house a few days later. Read more…
