My allotment plot in July 2020 It’s been a pretty good growing year all things considered. Just as drought was starting to become a real problem in sunny May, the weather changed […]
Allotment veg: growing and cropping
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Thornbridge Hall Gardens, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire
I had never heard of Thornbridge Hall and came across it by chance in June last year when I was on holiday in the Peak District. We’d been out walking all day […]
Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Haddon Hall is unique. Not just because it is 900 years old, this is Britain after all, but more significantly because the house was closed in the 18th century when the family […]
Allotment planting progress – letting the children leave home….
Surreal spring The problem with writing a blog about the allotment is that if I spend too much time growing the plants and going down to the allotment to plant them, I […]
Athelhampton House and Garden, Dorset, March 2020.
I love the spring and normally try to go away for a week in March, often aiming for the end of the month. As luck had it this year, various plans and […]
Young plants – growing up and moving on
Warm weather and sunshine have helped seedlings to grow fast into young plants. As we reach the start of May, what are the next steps and how do we know whether the […]
Seedlings – growing up and moving on
The follow-up stages in the life of your vegetable seedlings So you got busy sowing seeds a few weeks ago, and maybe, like me, you got a bit carried away despite all […]
Home grown vegetables. Tips and hints to get you started.
There’s nothing like empty supermarket shelves for making you feel like growing your own vegetables, so if you’ve suddenly decided it’s a good idea here’s a shortlist of some of the most […]
The Garden Press Event 2020 – Garden trends and old friends
Every year in February or March, the Gardening Press Event brings together around 100 companies involved in different aspects of the gardening industry with the massed members of the gardening press. The […]
Rain, rain go away – the problems with saturated soil
When I originally wrote that this was going to be a warts and all vegetable growing blog I hadn’t thought about the problems of flooding, but that’s what many people are dealing […]
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