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Return of the Rumble Memorial Pot
You know, I’m supposed to have a pretty container frothing with flowers just outside my front door to welcome visitors. The idea was that I filled it with colourful bedding, petunias or some such, in...
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Bargain hunting
Off down the garden centre on a hot tip this weekend to find spring bulbs slashed to just 50p a packet! I bought the lot, or at least one packet of every variety – that was 11 packets of bulbs for...
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Pocket-sized vegetables
Now, if the seed companies and garden centres and all those people trying to sell you stuff are to be believed, this is the Next Big Thing. Personally, I don’t know quite what to make of it. On the one...
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A housewarming present
My poor container plants are all higgledy-piggledy. There are geraniums on the steps and a loquat tree teetering on the wall, the lawn is developing oval-shaped sickly yellow patches under tubs of mint...
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Pick of the month: June
Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ To quote a well-known advert for a certain shop which used to sell clothing but now seems to be a supermarket for posh people: [cue 1970s lounge lizard soundtrack and sultry...
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I have been planting herbs. More to the point, I have been experimenting with herb containers: a gardening marriage made in heaven if ever there was one, as herbs like it dry and hot, and conditions in...
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Plant yourself a coronavirus veg garden
So here we all are, stuck at home with time on our hands, chaos in the supermarkets, trying not to think about an uncertain future. What better time to start growing your own food! This is the first...
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Return of the Rumble Memorial Pot
You know, I’m supposed to have a pretty container frothing with flowers just outside my front door to welcome visitors. The idea was that I filled it with colourful bedding, petunias or some such, in...
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Bargain hunting
Off down the garden centre on a hot tip this weekend to find spring bulbs slashed to just 50p a packet! I bought the lot, or at least one packet of every variety – that was 11 packets of bulbs for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pocket-sized vegetables
Now, if the seed companies and garden centres and all those people trying to sell you stuff are to be believed, this is the Next Big Thing. Personally, I don’t know quite what to make of it. On the one...
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A housewarming present
My poor container plants are all higgledy-piggledy. There are geraniums on the steps and a loquat tree teetering on the wall, the lawn is developing oval-shaped sickly yellow patches under tubs of mint...
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Happy New Year!
Nope – not quite crazy (yet). It may be September and only barely autumn, but the veg grower’s new year starts here. My list of crops to get under way for the new season right now includes autumn-sown...
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How to force strawberries
Imagine a bowl. Now fill it with gleaming, just-picked strawberries, perhaps just a little warm from the touch of the sun. Pick up the jug of cream that’s magically appeared alongside and tip a little...
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