How I store my dahlias
This year I decided to lift and store my dahlias in crates, and I used Westland’s Gro-Sure vermiculite as my storage medium, which was very nice and easy to work…
This year I decided to lift and store my dahlias in crates, and I used Westland’s Gro-Sure vermiculite as my storage medium, which was very nice and easy to work…
Taking a look back at 2021, we spent a lot of it outdoors and in the garden. I always find it motivating to see all the seasons, one after the…
My first year of growing dahlias has largely been a big success and I have fallen in love with dahlias. They offer so many different colours, sizes and shapes, so…
I’ve had great fun growing dahlias for the first time, and I can’t get over just how much they flower. We planted over 30 different varieties which were nurtured from…
The dahlias have finally exploded and they are flowering like crazy offering a wonderful array of colour to the garden and the vases inside the house. We have over 30…
Regular followers will know that we use Ecoworm’s assortment of organic vermicompost liquid fertilisers across our smallholding giving our vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs the nutrition they need. We’ve filmed…
Last year, a number of our plants and flowers were badly affected by slugs. This year with many new plants we’re not taking any chances, and we’re using Nemaslug to…
We’ve been growing our dahlias from tubers since March, and this week we finally got to plant them in our new cut flower raised bed. All of the tubers were…
One of our main summer projects this year is to build raised beds for cut flowers. We are building them in the front garden, and this year Kirsten has decided…