I’ve been so busy on the (recently enlarged) plot of late that I have rather neglected the blog. Where have you heard that before? Anyway with the allotment just beginning to come to the end of the hungry gap, 500 squash seeds and a load of salad coming on nicely in the school polytunnel, and [...]
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Bee friendly
Posted in out and about, wildlife gardens, tagged bee friendly plants, Spring Fayre, Troughs at Avoncliff on April 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Be nice to nettles
Posted in drinks, veg patch, wildlife gardens, tagged nettles on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hooray! It’s Be Nice to Nettles Week. This is one week when I can legitimately pretend that the large nettle patch on my new allotment is by design rather than default. Actually there are rather too many of them at the moment but I intend to keep a patch near the compost where I can brew some Nettle [...]
The flight of the bumble bee….
Posted in wildlife gardens, tagged advice, bees on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been hearing about the appalling decline in the numbers of honeybees in the press on a regular basis for quite some time now. In fact my recent foray into the world of war time gardening suggested that there were concerns about it even then. Bees are essential pollinators and we should all be doing [...]
