Rocket Gardens
For those like me who have a vegetable garden but neither the time nor the room to grow hundreds of seeds, prick them out and nurture young plants properly until […]
Tag Archives: vegetable beds
Pumpkins, gourds and squashes
In Autumn my kitchen and greenhouse shelves are packed with a variety of cucurbits. Some are grown in my own garden, others purchased in October at the annual pumpkin festival […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Opium poppy Papaver somniferum These handsome poppies have just about finished flowering for the year in my garden. I scatter their seeds all over the place, but they are fickle and […]
Garden Visiting
Last week I went away for a few days and as always my trip included garden visiting. We called in on fellow Cottage Garden Society member Rachel Helfer’s garden in […]
Our garden
The garden is 80ft long x 40ft wide, and set on two distinct levels. We have a sunny patio area up top and steps down to a shadier ‘secret’ garden. When […]
Snapdragon Jules 