A Word About Mulching

A word about mulching, it’s a highly beneficial practice that can enhance the health and productivity of your plants. Mulch is a protective layer of material applied to the soil surface around plants, and it serves multiple purposes in the garden. Let’s...
Autumn Vibes

Autumn Vibes

I find that I tend to slow down in Autumn and take a breather, sowing slows down and it is the time of year where I sit back and enjoy harvests from the garden. Days are getting shorter, that freshness is creeping its way in, thank goodness we have had some rain and...
Tomato Harvests And A Second Spring!

Tomato Harvests And A Second Spring!

So what’s going on in my garden right now? I have a front garden that’s full of perennials, it is in its second year since changing a square patch of lawn into a pollinator rich garden. It is glorious right now with oranges hues of kniphofia spires, waves of rudbeckia...
Early Summer Days

Early Summer Days

In the blink of an eye our gardens have flourished. I am based in Sussex and we have had an incredibly dry April, dare I say it, too hot really. But now we seem to be getting the April showers and I am sure I am not alone in breathing a sigh of relief that gardens can...
April Notes From My Garden

April Notes From My Garden

Gloriously days are as long as the nights and you can almost feel summer on the tips of your fingers. We have been treated to rather a spoilt soft start to spring, one may say a fools spring, the weather was super warm and the sun was glowing. It’s all change now...
Daylight hours are increasing and sowing starts

Daylight hours are increasing and sowing starts

From 14th February onwards there’s a spring in my step as the daylight hours increase to over 10 hours, the magic number of hours that plants need in order to grow and photosynthesise and it increases every day until the summer solstice. so its hoorah as we can all...