A very late six today as I was enjoying the sunshine and filling the day with chores (of the good type like eating out and gardening) I have a plague of aphids; last week I bought ladybird larvae and by some accident of the post they arrived just as I was going away to a … Continue reading Six on Saturday: Pests and Produce
Here are a few updates from projects I have been cultivating (pun intended) These are the sweet potato slips (Update! Experiments in (sweet) potato) growing under lights in the office. They are growing along quite slowly which I think is fine as it is cold outside and they will only be planted out when it … Continue reading Updates and a weird pumpkin
When we last left off in New Year New Garden the garden looked like this Since then we have been hampered by rain, sleet and snow – but some progress has been made. We finished building the beds despite the cold weather – then the sun came out (but still cold) Then the snow started falling … Continue reading New Year New Garden update
Each year I have had a garden I’ve bought tomatoes to grow in summer – there is nothing better than home-grown tomatoes and if you only have room for one thing in the sun then tomatoes should be it. Last year I bought seedlings from Victoriana (a yellow cherry ‘Clou’; an orange cherry ‘Sungold’; a … Continue reading Experiments in Tomato
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