Our veg garden: planting, growing and harvesting
Our vegetable garden journey has been an eventful one, but it’s done and now it’s about the real business at hand: planting, growing and harvesting our veg.
Our vegetable garden journey has been an eventful one, but it’s done and now it’s about the real business at hand: planting, growing and harvesting our veg.
In what has been the hottest and driest May in over a century in the UK, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’ve had a bumper solar month, smashing…
We went to our local garden centre last week to pick up some plants. As we are still waiting for our veg plugs from Marshalls to be delivered (it’s now…
As the lockdown continues with no obvious sign of when the Coronavirus drama will be over, we built a large delivery and parcel box because we’re going to increase the…
Our pond is a hive of activity during spring and summer, and it’s a great source of entertainment. While we have a deck area, we decided to create a new…
Our veg patch is now very, very close to being completed. In this installment, we plant some of the veg plugs we’ve received from Marshalls and get around to installing…
Our new veg patch is ready to go, and I’m now paying special attention to the importance of soil. Most soil found in backyards across the world is a mixture…
I came across this beautiful red damselfly in our garden this week. I initially thought it was a dragonfly, but the extremely helpful community at Gardner’s World informed me it…
Last week, while preparing our newly constructed raised beds, I came across a wireworm in the soil, which was not good news as we intend to grow potatoes and other…