Yes . It has been a while since I last blogged. Not that I have been idle. Quite the opposite, in fact. The thing is we’ve been having a bit of an overhaul of the Country Gate plot and garden. Plants have come – and some have gone in an effort to create a thing [...]
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Salad days
Posted in container gardens, Local food, slow food, soups and salads, tagged companion planting, edible landscape, salads on May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A day of firsts
Posted in container gardens, family time, out and about, tagged Bradford on Avon Flower Show, gardening with children, minature gardens on September 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last Sunday saw the first Flower and Vegetable Show in Bradford on Avon for some considerable time and many of the active growing community proudly displayed the fruits of their labours for all to see and some to pass judgement upon. One of the apprentice gardeners decided it was time to make her first foray [...]
Get Growing
Posted in container gardens, gardens, wildlife gardens, tagged Bradford on Avon Children's Centre, gardens on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are now halfway through the ‘Get Growing’ course for families at the Children’s Centre in Bradford on Avon and I couldn’t be more delighted with the results. So far we have planted window box allotments with cut and come again salads, and enhanced our wildpatch with some flowers to encourage bees. The children enjoyed [...]
Digging up the lawn isn’t the only option
Posted in container gardens, tagged allotments, container gardening, gardens, Landshare, Michelle Obama on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a great day it was when I read that Michelle Obama plans to dig up 100sqm of the Whitehouse lawn so that her family can eat what they grow and send a positive message out to the world that growing vegetables promotes community, responsibility and health. Of course all veg growers and allotmenteers knew this already but [...]
A bit of garden therapy….
Posted in container gardens, food for the soul, tagged chitting potatoes, garden therapy, pruning on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the mist and murk of the last couple of days, I have managed to do a bit of pruning but I shall chop back the buddleja to waist height next month and will wait for a dry day to tackle the wisteria. It’s going to pot and will involve a long afternoon up a tall ladder. I know I should have [...]
Springing up
Posted in container gardens, food for the soul, tagged Spring on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We awoke to an all-encompassing fog yesterday morning. Of all weathers I find this the most difficult and energy sapping. Even the apprentices, (early risers all) struggled to get downstairs for their 7am porridge fix. But by lunchtime – hey ho - I was able to eat lunch outside without my usual Paddington Bear garb. Isn’t Mother Nature [...]
