Get ready to Garden
April marks a month of change in the garden. Longer days, rising temperatures and clear signs of vigorous growth coincide with the four day Easter weekend for many and draw even the barely-gardeners outside to exercise their green fingers. For keen growers, especially of vegetables, April brings a sigh of relief as they start to free greenhouse and windowsills of...
Money saving gardening tips
Thompson & Morgan, well known seed and plant suppliers, also offer a huge amount of information to help gardeners via their Blog. As I am committed to increasing success and reducing frustration for everyone who gardens at home, I was delighted to contribute to the T&M February blog entitled "Money saving garden tips: cost-effective plants and flowers". This...
Keys to success with Vegetable growing
The first daffodils of early February may tempt us to think that spring is just around the corner and for many gardeners that means one thing: the start of the Vegetable growing season. But we all know that there is plenty of scope for wintry weather through February and March, and even here on the Kent-Sussex borders the last frost...
Feeding the Birds
Firstly I would like to wish everyone a happy and successful 2025 as we enter the second quarter of the 21st century. I am not much one for new year resolutions but if I have a phrase that I would like to epitomise the coming 12 months it must be green value: the hope that individually and as a society...
Cyclamen for indoors and out
One of the brightest spots of late autumn and winter gardening must surely be the potted Cyclamen that are on offer as winter bedding and Christmas presents. This blog post is all about Cyclamen because there is more than one species that we can grow in the UK and not all types suit all uses and spaces. Cyclamen are native to...