Cottage garden style
Cottage garden style is often described as gardening in a way that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. For me it is […]
Category Archives: Practical Gardening
Raspberry Jam
Raspberry canes run rampant in my garden. They love the sandy soil below, and the regular feed of compost on top. I grow them for two reasons – as a […]
Rake or blower?
Pictured above is my favourite tool of the moment. At this time of year I get a daily dose of leaves falling from the huge sycamore tree at the end of […]
Tomato Troubles
Why can’t I grow tomatoes from seed? I have a sunny greenhouse and all the time needed to sow the seeds, nurture seedlings and provide good watering and feeding regimes, […]
Raising the Stakes
This time of year I spend a lot of time supporting perennials and shrubs, especially necessary when they have been weighted down with rain as last week. I have a […]
Decorative Cane Tops
One of my big fears in gardening is accidentally poking my eye with bamboo cane or a sharp clipped branch, so I have the national collection of cane tops in […]
Tom’s Trowel
I have a shed full of garden tools to photograph. Trowels and garden forks in every shape and size imaginable. Hoes of every hue, and as for watering cans – […]
Pulling the birds
Feeding birds in the garden gives the best return on spend of anything I have done here. For less than £10 a month I now have a garden full of […]
Stone Management
I’m supposed to be weeding so I don’t know why I have started sorting out stones. Husband Tom started me off – his dad used to ask him to do […]
Decorative mulches for pots
Mulching around plants in the garden is great for improving the soil and suppressing weeds – but I also like to cover bare soil in pots, to help them from drying out […]
