We’ve been lucky with the gardens and allotments we’ve had up north. I had heard that you can have sandy soil, clay soil and, if you’re lucky, you’d get the soil that was just right – not too free-draining, and not too water-retaining. I hadn’t realised we had been lucky until we moved into our […]
Container Garden – May 2018
With May, plants shoot up and are getting ready to welcome the summer months. When you’re tending your garden day to day – sowing seeds, potting on, adding new plants – you don’t realise quite how much has changed until you look at photos or videos from a few months ago. The last video I […]
A slow start to spring
March was an odd month. It snowed, twice. And I went from temping to a permanent job with everything getting a new job entails: job hunting, apply, interview, repeat. I’m generally quite a rational person, but interviews, like public speaking, are something that provoke a physical and mental reaction in me. The snow prevented me […]
6 books for the urban gardener
After the snow flurry we had a couple of weeks ago, I was raving to go out into the garden this weekend to do some seed sowing and planting up my dahlias. And then we had more snow. Consequently I have spent the weekend moping around, looking longingly at the garden while the snow kept […]
Do containers need drainage holes?
Since I started gardening, I have been a little snobbish about growing plants in containers without drainage holes. I’m not sure why. I enjoy having buckets and bread bins that have had holes drilled in, however drilling holes is not always possible if you don’t have the right tools. Or you might not have decided […]