It’s not all veg round here, you know. Actually there are quite a lot of flowers in my patch. Of course there are all the flowers that come with veg: yellow tomato and cucumber blossoms, purple and white potato flowers, and the lovely red and white fountains of flowers climbing up my beanpoles. But I’ve [...]
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Veg plot flowers
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Other stuff, tagged tomatoes, beans, onions, carrots, pests, companion planting, flowers, marigolds, sweetpeas, nasturtiums on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hard graft
Posted in Greenhouse growing, Propagation, tagged chillies, grafting, peppers, tomatoes on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are some things where you think, ‘Life’s just too short’. Stuffing mushrooms, for instance. Tidying up your second daughter’s bedroom. Growing celery (has anyone, ever, done this successfully at home?). And grafting vegetables. Grafting is actually a really old idea: people have been doing it for at least 2000 years. You take the roots [...]
Sweet nothings
Posted in Container veg growing, Greenhouse growing, Unusual veg, tagged containers, sweet potatoes on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Another lovely parcel in the post this week! I do like buying myself presents. This one was long and thin: just the right shape for ten straggly sweet potato slips. As you can see from the picture, they were none too happy when they arrived: that’s what spending a couple of days in a cardboard [...]
Rogues’ gallery: Greenfly
Posted in Greenhouse growing, Rogues' Gallery, tagged aphids, coriander, greenfly, pests, virus on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My greenhouse is fragrant with the scent of coriander at the moment. Each time I open the door a waft of spicy, peppery perfume drifts out on the warmed air from the long trough of young plants parked just inside, waiting for the frosts to pass so they can move to just outside my back door. [...]
Strawberries on the way
Posted in Greenhouse growing, tagged forcing, pollination, strawberries on April 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Great excitement in greenhouse this week: the first strawberry flowers have opened on the ‘Cambridge Favourite’ plants I dug up to force back in February. Strawberry flowers are so pretty: simple, pure and artless, just as a flower should be. You can also really appreciate them up on a shelf in the greenhouse, where their [...]
Progress reports
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Other stuff, Soil care, sowing, tagged beans, blackcurrants, carrots, cooking, forcing, green manure, potatoes, seed, slugs, sowing, strawberries, time management, weather on April 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Spring has sprung, the grass is high, and I’m just pausing for breath before the next manic session of seed-sowing (tender veg this month). So while I’ve got a cup of tea to hand and my feet up on the potting bench I thought I’d take stock a little and see how all those many, [...]
Tales of an impatient gardener
Posted in Greenhouse growing, Propagation, sowing, tagged baby leaf salads, carrots, parsnips, salads, seed, sowing, spring, time management, tomatoes, winter on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s no good: I can’t resist. This happens every year in February. There’s something about the turn of the month that makes your gardening brain go into “spring” mode. Whatever the weather outside – and let’s face it, we’ve had some pretty horrific weather this year – I just want to get growing. If I were [...]
Forcing the issue #2
Posted in Container veg growing, Fruit, Greenhouse growing, Propagation, tagged containers, forcing, frost, Fruit, strawberries, weather, winter on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What a stop-start spring this has been. A week of watery sunshine got me all Tigger-like and bouncy in anticipation that finally, at last, the winter was over. Weeds were weeded, beds were forked over, edges were trimmed. Now it’s minus-goodness-knows-what at night again, blistering cold wind and sleeting rain all day. The allotment is under water, [...]
The eyes have it
Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Storing, sowing, tagged chitting, potatoes, sowing on February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Get a room full of keen veg-growers together at this time of year, and sooner or later you can guarantee the talk will turn to whether or not you chit your potatoes. It’s one of those pieces of wisdom that’s handed down unquestioned from gardener to gardener through the ages: when your seed potatoes arrive, you stand them [...]
Forcing the issue
Posted in Container veg growing, Greenhouse growing, sowing, tagged forcing, frost, potatoes, seed, winter on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Still confined to the greenhouse but too soon to sow seeds – what’s a girl to do? I need something to keep me going through the gardening doldrums, so I’ve decided to use a little force. By which I mean using the relative warmth of the greenhouse to persuade things to get going a bit [...]
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