April 27th
Picked up a yellow tomato variety – Sun Belle from ACW Garden Centre and a 3 pack of Orange Sweet Peppers (Mohawk variety) for £1.50 from Tesco of all places this morning. Planted up and the Conservatory is looking more Read More …
Month: April 2014
April 26th
Bit of pottering about today between the heavy downpours. The Purple Beauty Sweet Pepper seeds arrived from Ebay so planted them up in a tray. Got the window troughs and hanging baskets for front of house ready to go, another Read More …
Garden
One disadvantage with limited time and a full allotment is the garden gets neglected. So at the moment we have a jungle back there. Hopefully now the majority of the big stuff is done on the allotment I will be Read More …
Blueberries
Two of my four pots of Blueberry plants have died off this winter so have some more on order and also a couple of Pinkberry ones too. Will sort these out once the new plants arrive.
Tomato and Sweet Peppers
No greenhouse this year but do miss the advantages and plants you can go grown in them so that will be remedied for next year! In the meantime the conservatory is going to become a temporary greenhouse this summer so Read More …
Apricot
A compact dwarf variety of Apricot for pot growing. Excited to see how it does going forward!
Citrus Trees
We have had great success the past few years with the Lemon tree in the conservatory and also the Calmondin tree. Both fruit every year without fail so decided to pick up some more up when they were on offer Read More …
Portable Protection Cloche
New project this! While planting the cabbage seeds last weekend Lisa reminded me that the netting we used last year wasn’t very good at protecting from the white butterflies. So this year after seeing a YouTube video decided to create Read More …
April 21st
Popped across to Gordon Riggs Garden Centre first thing this morning to have a look around, and will be back in May for flowers for the window boxes and hanging baskets for the front of the house. Picked up some Read More …
April 19th
Couple of hours or so down the plot today. Sun finally made an appearance as I was getting ready to leave! Planted up the second bin of Highland Red Burgundy. Just got Maris Piper, Desiree and Purple Majesty to plant Read More …