The 2021 Slug Battle Begins
It has been quite a challenging year for gardening so far because the weather has been so unstable and changeable. May has been extremely wet, overcast and cold, and everything…
It has been quite a challenging year for gardening so far because the weather has been so unstable and changeable. May has been extremely wet, overcast and cold, and everything…
We decided that we would extend our vegetable garden this year and make some 2×2 metre raised beds in the field so that we can grow sprawling vegetables like pumpkins…
I received two mesh grow tunnels for Christmas, and they’ve come in extremely useful given the mixed weather we’ve had so far in 2021. The biggest issue with these particular…
Last year, while building our vegetable garden from the ground up, we painstakingly laid chicken wire at the bottom of our fence that ran one metre under the pathways to…
We started preparing for our vegetable growing season in March, but our vegetable garden has been very, very busy indeed. We discovered that we had field voles that were tunnelling…
Today, we finished transferring the majority of our seedlings into our raised beds in the vegetable garden, with the exception of the tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and courgettes that we’ve left…
Last year was the first time we ever grew our own vegetables on a scale to potentially feed ourselves, and we think it was reasonably successful. More importantly, we gained…
Walk through our vegetable garden and see the progress we’ve made. We’ll have a look at some of the star vegetables of the season and discuss the challenges we have…