We went fruit picking on the plot on Sunday. I’d been itching to go and pick some fruit for about a week because I knew that there was plenty ready. So, my husband and two children and I went over to the allotment armed with a few baskets to collect fruit. The raspberries were in [...]
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Gooseberries Galore, Rampant Raspberries and Burgeoning Blackcurrants
Posted in In The Garden This Week, my allotment, tagged blackcurrants, brambles, fruit picking, gooseberries, harvesting, raspberries, redcurrants, ripe on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NEWSFLASH for all Allotment Growers – Traces of herbicide Aminopyralid made by Dow Agrosciences found in manure
Posted in Ask Me Anything - Gardening Questions and Answers, Hints Tips and Other Stuff, In The Garden This Week, my allotment, tagged aminopyralid, Dow Agrosciences, guardian, manure, newsflash, observer on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
See here http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/29/food.agriculture Thankfully I’m not affected by this, nor any of my fellow allotmenteers on our site. But, it seems to be a pretty widespread problem and very upsetting for those affected. How could this product be allowed to be used?
Growing my own bedding plants – more experimental growing
Posted in In The Garden This Week, tagged agastache, bat plant, bedding plants, briza maxima, calendula sherbert fizz, californian poppy, catanche, cerinthe, cosmos, daydream, delphiniums, double trailing petunias, dwarf wildflower, eustoma, evening primrose, gazebo mixed, geranium splish splash, germinate, germinated, gloriosa lily, hardy annual, hardy perennial, honesty, italian white sunflower, lisianthus, lunaria, lupin dwarf lulu, marigolds, nasturtium milkmaid, nicotiana, nigella, night scented stocks, oriental poppy coral reef, osteospermum, ox-eye daisy, penstemon true blue, phlox, phlox of sheep, primula japonica, tacca nivea, verbascum southern charm, veronica getianoides, white bird of paradise on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve decided to try and grow some bedding plants, rather than buying them ready grown from nurseries or garden centres. I went a little overboard with the seeds (as usual!) and also bought some hardy perennial plants to mix in and provide colour early on next year. The seeds I’ve sown so far are: Catanche [...]
Now’s the time to be thinking potatoes
Posted in In The Garden This Week, tagged planting, potatoes, seed on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Buying seed potatoes, and planting them out.
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