With such an influx of brand-new gardeners, I thought I’d make a few quick how-to tutorials. Starting with sowing seeds.…
Plant information sheets as well as articles on specific gardening tasks.
CategoriesGrowing Herbs Herb Information Sheets Herb of the Month: March 2020
This month we celebrate Bergamot, but not the bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia) that famously flavours Earl Grey and Lady Grey…
CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing March in the garden
While March can still be hot, weather traditionally becomes a bit more variable as we enter our first month of…
CategoriesEdible Flowers Edible Flowers #7: Lavender
What an enchanting herb, Lavender (Lavandula spp) is! Long associated with the English cottage garden, or picturesque purple lavender hills…
CategoriesHerb Information Sheets Herb of the Month: January 2020
For 2020 we are kicking off Herb of the Month with the International Herb Association's Herb of the Year -…
CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing January in the Garden
The midsummer garden… If all went well with your planning and planting in spring, this is the month in which…
CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing My Garden Diary BioAssay – midway point
If you've been following my blog posts, Facebook feed and Instagram, you'll know that I had the misfortune of buying…
CategoriesMonthly and Seasonal Growing My Garden Diary Portraits of plants damaged from herbicides in compost/soil/manure mix
These are actual images of plants I have grown this season (Spring/Summer 2019) in compost and "veggie mix" bought from…
CategoriesMy Garden Diary October 2019 WEEK IN RETROSPECT 2019 – WEEK 7 & 8 (12 OCTOBER – 25 OCTOBER)
Warning – this is in entirety a moan post. But I did promise to share the good and the bad.…
CategoriesOctober 2019 Week in Retrospect WEEK IN RETROSPECT 2019 – WEEK 6 (5 October – 11 OCTOBER)
October! October! A truly beautiful month. With spring truly sprung, there's birds chirping, bees buzzing, lambs jumping through dandelion fields,…
