Container Gardening
- Pottering with Pots - a guide for stress free summer planting
- Layering bulbs - for months of winter/spring interest
Design
There's plenty of ideas to be found in my Design and Showtime labels. I've also written some design specific posts taking my garden as an example for the Garden Bloggers' Design Workshop. These also link through to Gardening Gone Wild's meme of the same name, where you can get a whole host of ideas from other bloggers.
Events
Events
Perpetual Events Diary - a month by month listing of the main UK gardening, food and related events to give you some ideas of where you can go, plus links so you can find out more
Frugal Gardening
Coming soon.
Frugal Gardening
Coming soon.
General Gardening and Flower Care
- Breaking the Rules: Bulbs - a look at whether spring bulbs can be planted late successfully
- Deficiency - How to spot and treat lime induced chlorosis and magnesium deficiencies
- Flowers for Bees: VP's Dozen - a list to help make your garden attractive to bees all year :)
- June drop - what this is and how to thin your top fruit like apples and pears
- Roses - top tips from National Trust gardeners
- Spring Pruning - are you a Nervous Nibbler or a Reckless Hacker? Plus what you can do with all your twigs and branches
- Tippity Top Daffy Down Dillies - the flower farmers told me what to look out for when buying cut daffodils
- Ash Dieback - an infographic, plus lots of useful resources for identification/reporting
- Bacterial Canker - including how to tell the difference between this and Gummosis
- Blight Watch - a great free UK national early warning system for potato and tomato blight
- Cabbage white butterflies - includes pictures small and large white butterfly eggs
- Capsid bugs - how to spot and treat their damage
- Fruit moth traps - usually put out towards the end of May
- Grease bands for winter moth fruit tree protection
- Viburnum beetle - if your Viburnum leaves are full of holes this is the post for you
- Garden Photography - a great guest post from Issy Eyre
- On Assignment with David Perry loads of tips from a fantastic photography workshop I attended at the Bloedel Reserve
- Allotment plan - a simple layout and planner for crop rotation
- Simple garden checklist - a way to ensure your garden has year-round interest which can also be used as a maintenance guide, allotment planner, whatever use you can think of for your garden or plot
Recipes
Have a look at my Easy Recipe Finder for all my simple, seasonal and scrummy ideas
- Chitting seeds - particularly useful for parsnips and sweetcorn
- Compost mixes for seed sowing and potting
- Cuttings - how to take tip and internodal cuttings
- Propagation - plants and tips from top nurseryman Bob Brown: Part I and not forgetting Part II
- Dahlia Duvet - overwintering Dahlias by mulching rather than lifting (southern UK only)
- Forcing/Blanching rhubarb and other vegetables
- Grafted tomatoes and other vegetables - one of my top 10 posts
- Preparing for Green Garlic - a great way of using garlic cloves which are too fiddly for cooking
- Seed Saving
- Square Foot Gardening - e.g. for cut and come again salads
- Tree planting and after care - top tips from Tony Kirkham of Kew
- We're All Going on a Summer Holiday - top tips from Cally on what to do about holiday watering
A fantastic resource for growing salad leaves year-round which deserves a page of its own
Things to Make and Do
- Fingerless gloves - for those cold days in the garden
- Plastic bottle mini cloche
- Seed tin
- Winter Twigs - a great guide to deciduous tree identification that's handy for winter walks
